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… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … inconsistency makes interpretation and integration across studies difficult. Our Plant Gene Atlas resource addresses … could be potential future targets for functional genomic studies. We also looked at the cross-species comparable …

… National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 different types of NEON samples and specimens per … Q:  Does NEON have or plan on collecting RNA samples from soil or surfaces for microbe-focused collections? A: Not at …

… to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model laboratory ecosystems (EcoFABs). … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and … insights into the diversity and important ecological roles of microeukaryotes in terrestrial ecosystems. Additionally, …

… 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 dioxide trapped in biomass each year … found only in the archaeal lineage Euryarchaeota; recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial …

… fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 researchers working in 21 … host plants to acquire nutrients. The papers appeared in  Studies in Mycology and in  Nature Communications , …

… 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 have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found …

… Dr. Malmstrom 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 bacterial group in the …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This is the first paper that describes sorghum’s … conditions, and then collected root, leaf and rhizosphere (soil surrounding the root) samples from the plants at the …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … genomes to a diploid state while retaining multiple copies of some genes. This polyploidization process is ongoing and … line is simply not true based on previous pan-genome studies. Thus, we must compare multiple polyploid genomes to …

… coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal waters and sediment with …

… Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process … the areas of single-cell microbial genomics and giant virus studies has been groundbreaking. The JGI is most fortunate …