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… to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …

… certain diseases are well known to be partially due to the DNA sequence that makes up an individual’s genome. The genes … crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in the … relationship between plant roots and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), known to provide plants with nutrients and …

… of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This …

… in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active …

… been approved through the annual Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … evolved from a white paper approved through JGI’s CSP New Investigator call to a full-scale submission. She …

… challenge of understanding one of these proteins — and its role in photosynthesis — in the cyanobacterium  … to the protein parts of that machine — photosynthesizers’ DNA and RNA. These sequences provide a list of machine … an interesting zinc-mirror heme site that plays a key role in sensing iron and regulating metabolism as …

… giant viruses that belong to the nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the … may in turn impact the host communities and their roles in carbon and other nutrient cycles. “This is the … out and characterize uncultivated viruses. For instance, a 2018 study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in …

… aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Dr. Tan … are economically, culturally, and ecologically important fungi, widely prized as a culinary delicacy, but also … soils, but the nutritional association between mycorrhizal fungi and tree roots as well. This might be one of the key …

… sorghum plants in drought conditions for three years (2016-2018) in the field in Parlier, California at the UC Kearney …

… and nitrogen metabolism, as well as those that play a role in carbon cycling. However, the high degree of … types of microorganisms were found at each site and the role they fulfilled suggest that specific environmental …

… single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA input without amplification. …