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… evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the …

… Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after the JGI was established to work on the …

… 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 …

… 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 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …