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… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable bioeconomy. Researchers and farmers could improve …

… 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 … tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes …

… (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 … every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in the Spatafora lab describes the effort …

… 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 similar single-cell genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. Zealexins are produced … a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins …

… 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 … source of antibiotics. Indeed, these anaerobic fungi may be using these compounds for self-defense. But the compounds …

… 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-oxidizing archaea. They used IMG because the database already contains metagenome …

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 use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and …

Dan Rokhsar Simon Roux Asaf Salamov Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of … Chen ,  Natalia Ivanova ,  Nikos Kyrpides ,  Simon Roux , Susannah Tringe , and Tanja Woyke  were part of a “big data” … and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass  Miscanthus sinensis in  Nature Communications.  The reference genome …

… of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head of the Microbial Systems group … and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” focuses on anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome …

… is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce biodiesel. The fungus  Phakopsora pachyrhizi causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of …