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… vents are ocean-floor openings in the Earth’s crust that emit hot, mineral-rich water. These vents are too … be applied to biotechnology and medicine. A more robust understanding of these microbial communities could lead … separate, seawater seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with very hot rocks below, becoming an …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, …

… a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable … for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by …

… from grasses into other crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup …

… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and … tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes …

… the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and … a group lead at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and … systems. PloS one. 15: 11. 2020 Blaby & Cheng, Building a custom high-throughput platform at the Joint Genome Institute …

In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was published in the journal Nature . The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI … Having this first genome sequence of a mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from looking at single organisms to …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of … Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … areas of study span the research interests of the JGI’s user community.  Go here to view the current UEC roster. …

… will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the … microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of viruses impact many ecological processes, including carbon … including 3,908 isolate reference DNA viruses and 264,413 computationally identified viral contigs. Since then, IMG/VR …

… sorghum’s survival secrets could change not only how we use and grow sorghum, but other important crops as well. In … of sorghum projects at the JGI: 2009: JGI and collaborators use whole-genome shotgun sequencing to analyze the … than found in the single reference genome, including traits useful for adapting to harsh conditions. 2019: JGI and …