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… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … sugar and biomass. Additionally, the team was able to identify a major locus (Bru1) that durable resistance to brown … The work (proposal: https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60001084 and https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60001194) …

… sorghum’s survival secrets could change not only how we use and grow sorghum, but other important crops as well. In … of sorghum projects at the JGI: 2009: JGI and collaborators use whole-genome shotgun sequencing to analyze the … ) and the grass Brachypodium distachyon ( 2017 ), have identified many more genes than found in the single reference …

… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … the planet’s nutrient cycles and are potentially of use in fields ranging from agriculture to biotechnology and … A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from microbial and metagenome sequence data sets …

Click the cards below to view downloadable pdfs of previous Progress Reports from the Joint Genome Institute.  … FY20 … Report … FY10 Progress Report … FY09 Progress Report … FY08 Progress Report … FY07 Progress Report … FY06 Progress …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of … describes the effort that led to the work published in Scientific Reports . Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when nutrients are … continued to seek other ways to make morels fruit under artificial environments, a technique to supply exogenous …

… the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high … bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. … a semi-automated stable isotope probing pipeline identifies cross-kingdom interactions in the hyphosphere of …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … called zealexins. Even though scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced …

… off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held … proposal. The next step for the team was to try to identify what natural products the fungi were making. So, Trent …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, for publicly available metagenome data … and short-chain alkane oxidation metabolisms. They also identified a set of 38 marker genes that serve as a core set of …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, developed an algorithm that a computer could … databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called …