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… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … the remaining components into  biofuels and bioproducts. If anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential …

… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for … faculty and researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and the DOE … educators are partnering with the JGI and KBase to tap into their existing infrastructures and technologies, enabling …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less … into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms rearrange their cells around this structure to facilitate sharing.  Recently, researchers have … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . The … for comparative purposes on the latest version of the JGI plant portal Phytozome at  phytozome-next.JGI.doe.gov . …

… The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. The … Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much … to counter soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The software … can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also affect ecosystems by …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … Moreover, the team says the approach they used to validate their set of guide RNAs could be applied to other …

… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work may be akin to finding a single snowflake on a … information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the cell, RNA viruses store their …