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Dealing with Drought: Uncovering Sorghum’s Secrets
Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … paper that describes sorghum’s response to drought, from a large-scale field experiment to uncover the mechanisms behind … and some differently. Some different responses relate to functioning of the photosynthetic machinery, which requires …
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Shared Genomic Regions Between Derivatives of a Large Segregating Population of Maize Identified Using Bulked Segregant Analysis Sequencing and Traditional Linkage Analysis
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Deletion of either the regulatory gene ara1 or metabolic gene xki1 in Trichoderma reesei leads to increased CAZyme gene expression on crude plant biomass
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Gut Fungi: Unexpected Source of Novel Chemicals
The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … analyses) to break up the compounds and to puzzle out their structures. Their results indicate that anaerobic fungi … the compounds. Although what compounds they make is still largely a mystery, anaerobic fungi clearly have unexpected …
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Effects of Polar Light Cycle on Microbial Food Web
Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … these polar environments greatly contributes to our larger understanding of carbon and other nutrient cycles on a … was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project …
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JGI-KBase Panel at SACNAS
Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any …
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Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes
The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial communities that … to that of a free-living organism. First discovered in 2011, Nanohaloarchaea are part of the DPANN (Diapherotrites, …
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JGI Launches Latest Strategic Plan
For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion …
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2022 Progress Report
Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …
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Complete genome sequence of Thioalkalivibrio paradoxus type strain ARh 1T, an obligately chemolithoautotrophic haloalkaliphilic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from a Kenyan soda lake
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The Busy World of Deep Sea Eruptions
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I-Min (Amy) Chen
Lead at the JGI, responsible for the data management infrastructure of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) family … of uncultured virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata. Nucleic … in an Academic Setting, SSDBM 14, July 2014 … Selected Publications …
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