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Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The … Boasting adaptations in order to protect themselves from environmental stresses, ferns’ secondary metabolites and … next-generation plant biology. … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against … are produced in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists … Terpenes are important in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions, and also have industrial …

… notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. While a hill of beans may not seem … as a biofuel. To this end, a team of researchers led by Jeremy Schmutz of the JGI and the HudsonAlpha Institute …

Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species … As  reported January 27, 2021 in  Nature , the team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, … test what genes affect the plant’s adaptability to various environmental conditions. “To accelerate breeding for  …

On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s Operations Deputy has come to a close as this … delivering the (baked) goods – a retirement cake adorned by a JGI helix motif. Ray’s wife Deb, delivered a mask for … by the leadership of the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research: Sharlene Weatherwax; Associate …

Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity … a novel approach to better understand microbial communities by looking at protein function within them. The work was led … only 7% of protein families were shared across all eight environmental categories. Instead, families preferred a …

… notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Chlamydomonas is a single-celled … 7,000 genes with other organisms (a third of those shared by both humans and flowering plants). Its genome also …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and … to inform the engineering of stable, synthetic microbial communities to take advantage of their joint metabolisms. … microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied and Environmental Microbiology , the researchers engineered root …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable … could be applied to other non-conventional organisms. Summary According to legend, Abraham Lincoln once said, “Give … work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by then-graduate student Cory Schwartz and his advisor Ian …

… began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after completing a petascale postdoctoral … winning team at the Supercomputing conference, SC’18, led by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Fagnan … approaches in support of meeting DOE mission critical programmatic goals. … Joubert et al., “Attacking the Opioid …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint … To learn more about the project, HudsonAlpha’s Research Communication Manager Sarah Sharman recently interviewed study … difficult. Our Plant Gene Atlas resource addresses that by providing standardized experimental conditions, tissue …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene … in 2019. Now, that power is poised to grow exponentially by combining it with CRISPR.  By employing CRAGE, … can then employ CRISPR in a variety of microbial hosts. Summary Photorhabdus luminescens proves fatal to insects. It …