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How Microbes Can Protect Plants in Drier Straits
New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to drought. …
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Improved-high-quality draft genome sequence of Rhodococcus sp. JG-3, a eurypsychrophilic Actinobacteria from Antarctic Dry Valley permafrost
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Doubling Down on Known Protein Families
Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … genes from isolates, there isn’t much scientists can tell about its function or its origin. As a result, these genes …
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For the Tiniest Archaea, A Genomic Switch of Friend or Foe
… they need to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal … cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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Triggering Morel Fruiting
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is … carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the assimilated carbon into …
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Subsurface hydrocarbon degradation strategies in low- and high-sulfate coal seam communities identified with activity-based metagenomics
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Omics analyses and biochemical study of Phlebiopsis gigantea elucidate its degradation strategy of wood extractives
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Dinoflagellates alter their carbon and nutrient metabolic strategies across environmental gradients in the central Pacific Ocean
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Comparative Genomic Analyses of Cellulolytic Machinery Reveal Two Nutritional Strategies of Marine Labyrinthulomycetes Protists
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Evolution of a Fungal Gene Expression Regulator
… than 500 species of fungi. The Impact Interactions between plants and fungi run the gamut from mutually beneficial to … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and others like …
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Researching and Solving Real-World Problems with the 2023 JGI-UC Merced Interns
… students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with … going forward. Watch this short video (below) to hear more about the summer from their own perspectives. The interns … JGI mentors are listed below, along with their project focus areas: Undergraduate Interns Andrew Lin and mentor Vy …
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From Berkeley to Binghamton: Tracking Strawberry Evolution
… the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …
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