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… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are … in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for the symbiosis, …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane … sugar and biomass. Additionally, the team was able to identify a major locus (Bru1) that durable resistance to brown …

Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are among … Dan Rokhsar Simon Roux Asaf Salamov Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of … Nature Biotechnology.  The work also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations …

… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from microbial and metagenome sequence data sets … User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was supported in part by a Natural …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in … describes the effort that led to the work published in Scientific Reports . Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is … assimilated carbon into the soil, reducing the amount of CO2 emissions from decaying leaves and woods into the … continued to seek other ways to make morels fruit under artificial environments, a technique to supply exogenous …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … called zealexins. Even though scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even … Institute Community Science Program (JGI-CSP) grant (CSP2568 to P.Z., ES and AH), and by a fellowships provided by …

… off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. … proposal. The next step for the team was to try to identify what natural products the fungi were making. So, Trent …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” … Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature Microbiology , a team led by scientists … databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called …

… researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  … is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial …

… (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The selection process for AAM Fellows is based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have … Lab’s 2015 Women @ the Lab honorees. Woyke’s research focuses on developing and harnessing single-cell methods to …

… all that it has contributed, and what they’re excited about in JGI’s future. Find recordings and recaps of these … and Environmental Research “There are two kinds of scientific revolutions,” Ari Patrinos opened with this quote from … to be junk DNA, so there was quite a bit of resistance to use resources to sequence it,” Patrinos said. After many …