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We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions … methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things like meat, …

… could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the … have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … Olpidium are obligate endoparasites of some common crops, such as lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause … paper was able to resolve the latter question, despite of their well-designed sampling and analysis of their data at …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical … deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field trip. One of the questions they’re …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of … in Nature Communications on June 17 , 2022, was conducted by JGI Director Nigel Mouncey and research scientist …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. … and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from their soil samples. This gene expression dataset was …

… in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) in France and Igor … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on … to acquire carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the assimilated …

… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing …

My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These … State Fresno) and two students, Angela and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …