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… The Prokaryote Advisory Committee is chartered to offer advice, guidance and counsel on the effective … and scientific relevance and quality. The Committee does not perform management functions nor does it direct the Programs' management teams on how to …

… in its environment, this alga reveals a remarkable ability to adapt to stress and rapid environmental changes. … and sequencing from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science … found the salinity changes led the algae to express genes involved in freezing resistance, adapting to cold …

… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and scientific collaborations in 2018. The cover is an image of Mono Lake, … here , here and here ), and the data has been used to better understand arsenic mobility and to better …

… feedstocks of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, … for females. To better understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers investigated the … sequences so that their sequences read the same (or nearly) backward and forward, like the name “Hannah.” …

… Biotechnology , a team from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science … tool called CheckV that can automatically do both. The work was led by research scientist Stephen Nayfach, the … from the host organism. With the virus-host boundary clearly defined using functional annotation methods, it was …

… at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking into a desert shrub that’s native to North America: guayule.  This episode was made in collaboration with our friends at the HudsonAlpha Institute …

… lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A diverse … effort by a team that included researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User … by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to establish …