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… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a … of stable, synthetic microbial communities to take advantage of their joint metabolisms. Because, together, microbes … Blow, and their team have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied …

… mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the significant role sex plays in how … which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon …

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… The JGI uniquely offers the first quantitative Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline that utilizes internal analytical … The JGI provides users access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA … additional functional insights into microbial genomes, the JGI now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate …

… and virus genomes have been assembled and reported from metagenomes, our understanding of the impacts of these viruses … measurements ( Who is active when/where, and how? ). The JGI Viral Genomics group attempts to address this question in natural soil ecosystems by combining metagenomics with other omics approaches, including especially …

… The JGI’s Microbial Program focuses on using cutting-edge … and epigenomics. Expansion of sequence space:  The JGI generates reference genomes from diverse bacterial and archaeal lineages to improve phylogenetic analysis, metagenomic annotations, and function distribution. These are …

… The latest edition of the JGI Progress Report highlights notable research and … lake east of California’s Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI (isolates here , here and here ), and the data has been …

… Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is an easily absorbable … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department …

… Through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship, graduate students Candace … of the internship program. Candace Cole, UC Merced JGI Mentors : Ben Cole & Axel Visel, Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions “The summer internship has …

… and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. … across species. Specifically, many species had very similar plant cell wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs), including … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … roles in both the carbon and nitrogen cycles, break down plant mass (think biofuels ), enhance plant health, cause … the JGI has pioneered, including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. The GEBA initiative has also utilized a very …