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New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose that eventually yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to … little exception, organisms have figured out how to create enzymes that break these components down into glucose. It’s …

The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, …

… to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions … products.  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This … the samples starting at 10am Pacific time. JGI researchers helped develop the overall experimental design, sequenced …

… mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host … metabolism affects the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements, better understanding the …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative … To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, researchers recently compiled a list of with …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion … and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the … (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria …

On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science group held a  JGI … “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a presentation that [DNA Synthesis Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave …