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Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in … Communication Manager Sarah Sharman recently interviewed study first author Avinash Sreedasyam, a HudsonAlpha senior … plants but not the ammonium. These results highlight differences in plants’ response to nitrate …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … maize. By deciphering the zealexin synthesis pathway, this study makes it possible to harness the protective function …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. … able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have … (Berkeley Lab). All of the fungal genomes used in the study are available on the JGI fungal portal  MycoCosm . The …

… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … sunlight and frigid temperatures. These waters also contain higher concentrations of the essential trace metal zinc, … temperatures characteristic for polar oceans. In this study, they’ve cracked open the genome of another polar …

Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total … is typically observed, but to the “TACK” superphylum,” said study first author Bojk Berghuis. “This provided us with … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the … Polyploid Genomes in a Pan-genomic Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science … pan-genomes are much larger than any individual genome highlighting the fact that the genetic information in a …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that …

… data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a … Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples from four sites: … winding road, this new influx of genomes opened a superhighway for the same route. “It was really amazing how the …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper … Colorado State University researchers led a consortium to study river microbiomes. To understand the microbiology of …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … to harvest all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro and  in vivo … characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that …

… hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … to survive. To fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. … but these symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these …