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The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Office of Science User Facility (contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231) with T.J.E. as grantee. J.-C.B. acknowledges the …

The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at … U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research used resources of the National Energy …

… (UC), Berkeley, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR), US Department of Agriculture P­­lant Gene Expression Center, … and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in …

Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane …

… is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. The fungus  Phakopsora pachyrhizi … 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis … to counter soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome …

… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … sequencing, they were able to identify the target genes of 11 sigma factors in Streptomyces coelicolor . The Impact As … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a … to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  … is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential … (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies grants W911NF-09–D-0001 and W911NF-19-2-0026 (MAO), US Army Research …

… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … Additionally, CheckV was able to identify just over 17,000 contiguous sequences (contigs) of proviruses flanked …