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… need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. … called iPHoP (pronounced “eye-pop”,  freely available online ). It combines and evaluates multiple predictions to …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration …

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Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … Tel Aviv University in Israel, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were …

Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the … EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) Symposium series. The online seminars foster discussion on how to best capture and … explore viral genetic diversity toward innovative biotechnological and industrial applications. Videos from …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the … experimental innovations, computational advances, and other technological developments leveraging recent progress in …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene groups involved in stress tolerance …

… of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley Lab), have taken stock of the … sequence data generated over the past three decades, their study assesses what fraction of the microbial diversity we … genes on nearly 2 million genomes, including isolates, metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) with varying quality …

… at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the … outline the questions they asked – and answered – in the study that recently appeared in the Proceedings of the … use a more efficient form of photosynthesis that reduces water loss, compared to the process used by most plant …

In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those … and replicating with their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, … on culturing virus and host pairs in the laboratory to study their interactions. This work,  recently published in  …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … the JGI contributed to annotation of the genomes, available online at  PhycoCosm (for the alga genome) and  MycoCosm …