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Expression of macromolecular organic nitrogen degrading enzymes identifies potential mediators of soil organic N availability to an annual grass
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Co‑cultivation of the anaerobic fungus Caecomyces churrovis with Methanobacterium bryantii enhances transcription of carbohydrate binding modules, dockerins, and pyruvate formate lyases on specific substrates
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2025 NeLLi Symposium
Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint … Research Institute, the 2025 NeLLi Symposium delves into the most recent expansions of the Tree of Life and latest … to a new appreciation for the extent of diversity. The phylogenetic and functional characterization of this novel …
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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 … in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic diversity.  In 2021, he was among those selected by …
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JGI Earth Month: The Unusual Metabolism That Helps Plants Withstand Drought
… and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science … to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of … they need. Karolina is working to better understand what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying …
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Graduate Students Get Thesis Research Opportunity at the JGI
… (SCGSR) program awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE national laboratories or … to answer our most pressing problems. I’m very much looking forward to working with JGI and LBNL scientists and …
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Functional Characterization of Two Class II Diterpene Synthases Indicates Additional Specialized Diterpenoid Pathways in Maize (Zea mays)
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Qualitative and quantitative resistances to leaf rust finely mapped within two nucleotide‐binding site leucine‐rich repeat (NBS‐LRR)‐rich genomic regions of chromosome 19 in poplar
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Defining the Sphagnum Core Microbiome across the North American Continent Reveals a Central Role for Diazotrophic Methanotrophs in the Nitrogen and Carbon Cycles of Boreal Peatland Ecosystems
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JGI User Executive Committee Expands
Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department … Science Program. As a UEC member, he’s interested in finding ways to boost visibility of the CSP to encourage … approved CSP New Investigator proposal to understand the genetic basis of fungal community assembly on dead wood …
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Cataloging the Microbes that Manage the Health of River Systems
United States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to collect samples from across the country to standardize the process. They noted this may be the first publicly available, river-focused …
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Testing the kinetic tradeoff between bicarbonate versus phosphoenolpyruvate affinity and glucose-6 phosphate response of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from two C4 grasses
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