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… challenges. And many JGIers work to connect those big goals with their everyday activities, striving for sustainability … works at a single-cell level as part of the JGI MicroScale Applications team. But on a recent lunch break, she got to help tackle a challenge at a much different scale — moving a 3-foot long, spiny cactus into its new home …

… carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, … In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules …

… pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and have access to unique lab … from sediment samples across spatial and temporal scales. Rambo also plans to work with JGI virus researchers … at the terrestrial-marine interface, which at a larger scale may be applicable towards carbon, and especially …

… two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees … down hemicellulose. The authors think this might have to do with the differences in lifestyle: honey bees need ample … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US …

… is one of the largest data repositories of its kind, with an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and … sprung up in almost all branches of eukaryotes (organisms with a nucleus). In part because of this evolutionary … Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for microbial and metagenome datasets, MycoCosm for comparative analysis of …

… and characterized a novel phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed Marsarchaeota. The … lineages found there and elsewhere provide researchers with insights into the evolution of life on Earth. For … Through the JGI’s Community Science Program , the team used metagenome assemblies, transcriptomes and single amplified …

… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers … been  published in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to … Additionally, insights from the genome could help scale sustainable sugarcane conversion technologies for  …

… plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat … and hollows flow like hills and valleys, on a smaller scale. Depending on the species, some sphagnum may prefer … kingdom. Specifically, researchers found that female plants within a species tended to weather pH stress from peatlands’ …

… Zerbe of the University of California, Davis. “The work with JGI was one of the first things we actually started … these capabilities in other calls such as the  annual large-scale CSP call or through the  “Facilities Integrating … and a consortium-type proposal? A: Consortium proposals can scale the request size, being permitted to request up to 1.5 …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more … as a leader in single-cell genomic amplification at a large scale. Summary The two most common methods for collecting … attempt to put them back into the original genomes. These metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) that came from shotgun …

… its DNA Synthesis Science Program , the JGI enables large-scale synthesis support, sequencing, integrative -omics, and … case studies, JGI scientific users share how they’ve worked with the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program, which started in … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

… (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to make … environment, which would be transformative at industrial scales. “Cell-free systems have been really powerful at … per Liter-hour in a system optimized for developing small-scale prototypes. Additionally, the team also used a similar …