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… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … HT-SIP is a capability available to request through  the JGI proposal calls . … Work at Lawrence Livermore National …

… female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we … in mammals: a structure that helps correct deleterious mutations. The Impact Shrub willow and its close … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… the DNA bases themselves can also be modified. The best-known example of a modified DNA base is a methylation of the … but is not well understood in fungi. A team of researchers reported on the largest analysis of 5mC distribution across … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, developed an …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements … and more. And eventually, their findings could help us grow better crops, with less impact on our planet. …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey … of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with … the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … an early algorithm and developing it in order to talk about the subgenome identity.”  These days, Session is …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to … 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 …

… becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts and floods. The … (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 …

You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum … were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play …