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… Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

… to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant … published in 2014 by a team led by University of Pretoria scientists with help from researchers at the DOE Joint …

… of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are … such as heat waves, droughts and floods. The planet’s resources are being stretched by a growing human population and … and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… about 2.5 million years less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the … originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed light on both when and how eelgrass … many species able to occupy the regions where eelgrass flourishes. The plant can thrive in both frigid and tropical …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging this symbiosis could improve the way soils store …

… led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the … is triggered when nutrients are acquired from an external source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes … and his patent has proven difficult to reproduce. While scientists and biotechnological engineers all over the world …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: … findings in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades …

… the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic … application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model laboratory ecosystems (EcoFABs). … Trent Northen is the Metabolomics Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about …

… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time.  “To our knowledge, nobody has ever discovered a dispersal gene …

… citrus, trifoliate orange ripens only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now … a team of researchers sequenced  P. trifoliata ’s genome. Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …