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… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon … heavy metal contamination, and drought. The moss genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of … about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss genomes ran the gamut of sequencing technologies, from …

… JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to … Microbiology .  The latest article, published January 27, is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for … move toward characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal …

… genomic science research that feels especially relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   … I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person meetings were … need. Karolina is working to better understand what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying yuccas, a …

… approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of … To validate the predicted cellulases from their captured genomes, the team then used DNA synthesis and cloning, … for a new genus level member of the novel candidate phylum Goldbacteria. They’ve proposed the name  Candidatus …

… facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of their thesis … to work with JGI virus researchers and harness the IMG/VR database. “The SCGSR award will further my goal of resolving …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next seven years, and in collaboration with … with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.   Publications Grimwood, J., Gordon, L., Olsen, A. et al. The …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. …

… Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant Professor at Binghamton University in New York. He and Rokhsar have  recently published a Nature … developed a method to correctly identify polyploid subgenomes without needing to know the genomes of their …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. … The Science Haloarchaea flourish in hypersaline environments, and researchers are interested in learning how … in the haloarchaeal gene pool, a team led by University of New South Wales (UNSW)-Sydney professor Rick Cavicchioli …

… Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile … Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of … Plasmid Resource (IMG/PR) , which currently has more than 700,000 plasmids from genomes, metagenomes and …