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Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to rapidly growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is also co-director of the … paper describing the genomes of the five major cotton lineages. Grimwood was also part of the JGI team that …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and Saganbacteria that diverged from …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to providing metagenome mining for computational analysis of the AT enzyme … look at the functional redundancy of ATs, this team leveraged the JGI’s DNA synthesis capabilities to express, purify …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … diverse sorghum genomes. Deep sequencing and genetic linkage analysis improve the genome’s accuracy, and increase its … to better understand sorghum’s toughness and energy storage. The S. bicolor reference genome, BTx623, recently …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from … Laboratory, to create the database. JGI provided metagenome and metatranscriptome sequences, as well as …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern … than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the cell-free system is that the cells are no longer …

… 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 … and confer stress tolerance traits. Given the importance of polyploidy in plants, researchers have sought to learn …

… high school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … “When I originally envisioned the project of the class, I knew that I wanted them to write a final paper that  could be …

… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave event in the ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern subarctic …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial …