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… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have … of living. The Impact Microbes help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic matter, or … fungi (mutualist symbionts that induce structural changes in plant roots),  M. elongata  doesn’t have as many …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This is the first paper that describes sorghum’s … of water than the leaves. The team found sets of genes that change their expression in the same manner in the two …

… The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment environments, water and air-atmosphere with the humans and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … The planet’s microbial diversity is immense, yet much of it remains unknown. For more than a decade, researchers … environments, actinobacteria play roles in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles, break down plant mass (think …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … inoviruses are in every major microbial habitat—including soil, water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over … a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon fixation process known as the C4 pathway, which …

… human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed … assembly, and improvement strategies for de novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large … the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community driven science for JGI Plant Flagship Genomes …