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… cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … compounds via clear, straight pathways, entailing the function of more than a dozen enzymes. But researchers have now …

… We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals … produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea … Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things like meat, milk, and wool. …

… bioenergy security for a steadily growing worldwide population. Anuvia Plant Nutrients , a small Florida business producing bio-based plant nutrition products that target soil enrichment, is partnering with … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to help drive discoveries …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and … capable of naturally modifying lignin.  The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods …

… decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise gene targeting in the genome in the … also simplifies metabolic modeling and pathway optimization for enhanced lipid production. Also notable, researchers found it is missing 33 genes …

… Genome Institute (JGI) Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting! The JGI convenes this annual gathering of leaders from diverse … are addressing the world’s most pressing energy and environmental challenges.  The invited talks emphasize how the …

… viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over the world, scientists have discovered giants among viruses. Now categorized in their own phylum,  … of giant viruses came primarily from sampling an environment, then co-culturing isolated viruses in eukaryotic  …

… Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. … to understanding what these viruses can do. Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, researchers … of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Early Career Research Program awarded …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the …

… single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they tested the screen method on …