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Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? … 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 …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome … the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by …

… made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. … is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI … individual genes, whole pathways, genome-editing tools, and reporters.” JGI-developed genetic engineering technique …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of … 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 …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga … yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … 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 … and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled … and removal of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from the U.S. …

… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and …

… particularly actinomycetes. His research activity is focused on developing and implementing new technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery … of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he studied transcriptional regulation, metabolism and …

A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …