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New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get … Lentinula genus diverged roughly 28 million years ago, when the largest mammal ever, Paraceratherium, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), presented on generating vector representations of …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted … students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … messenger RNA, which encodes a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began … the simplest cotton genome ( Gossypium raimondii ) several years ago.   As well as the seminal Human Genome Project DOE …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the data provided. In this proof of concept test, the team reported that the algorithm was over 95% successful at …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … scientists a bigger bang for their buck. The research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these … as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … spectrometry-based enzyme activity assay. The work was  reported in  The ISME Journal . While the screen caught …