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Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in … enzyme variants. ECR enzymes are capable of fixing CO2 many times faster than RuBisCo, the most common CO-2 fixing …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major … a full third of each moss genome, and are almost four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the study …

Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and …

… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life had found other ways … than 400 cultured rumen prokaryotes from the  Hungate1000 project . They also used the tool to predict possible …

… and graduate students to engage in real, impactful research projects with JGI mentors. In this episode, hear two interns … cohort describe their deep dives into genomics, computational tools, and big data.  …

JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one way or another, they’ve all mentioned how …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program between the DOE Joint … summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the 2023 cohort. Each of them has brought invaluable … partnership had become a “model” of sorts at the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to …

… is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant … also carries out custom preparative work for difficult user projects, including those that require fluorescence …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection Agency declared the North Railroad … to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed light on both when and how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout …