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… You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and … the genomic dynamics of biofuel-producing fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, and the …

… The purpose of this policy is to establish communication norms around … their work, while also adhering to the authorship policies of the journal in which the research is published. The JGI … (see Auspice Statement below) for the generation of sequence or metabolomic data, DNA synthesized, and any …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … three  Brachypodium  grasses have small genomes, short life cycles and can be easily transformed, traits that make them … pan-genomes are much larger than any individual genome highlighting the fact that the genetic information in a single …

… a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … Sloan foundation (grant number G-2017-9955), the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia …

… In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … While microbes regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, viruses infecting microbes shape global ecological …

… sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … discoveries. GOLD’s  public Application Programming Interface allows users to access curated metadata programmatically …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better … , is recognized as a mutualist, where both species of organism benefit from association, but was predicted to … also regulate its sexual reproduction. The work sheds light on a poorly understood group of oleaginous or …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … which make up nearly 3 percent of the earth’s land surface. In the New Phytologist, researchers led by David Weston … cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon …

… to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … the roles viruses and their host microbes play in nutrient cycles. …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science research that feels especially … kind of plant metabolism. This metabolism, called crassulacean acid metabolism, or CAM — that’s C-A-M, for short — …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns … Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …