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… cycle. During regular web conferences, various JGI subject matter experts walked the class through the workflow and all … Education (E4) community-building workshop at the  2019 Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) … with Boca Raton Community High School. On June 26, 2019, the students gave a team presentation on how they …

… the project. The story is reposted here in modified format; their conversation has been lightly edited and … the gene function and add additional biological information. As I’ve said earlier, 16 to 56 percent of plant … us to add expression-derived additional biological information to an average of 40 percent of genes across Gene …

… of researchers studying actinobacteria to share information and data. The filamentous actinobacteria are of … of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science . …

… Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which … of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science . …

… the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. The … fungi detect which complex chains are available; this information triggers pathways to determine which enzymes should … Joint Genome Institute Community Science Program grant (CSP 982), and funds from the Fred E. Dickinson Chair of Wood …

… ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained …

… Impact Sphagnum’s impact on global carbon cycling and climate is estimated to be larger than any other single plant genus. Peatlands accumulate partially decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 … the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, P23117-B17, P25111-B22, P26392-B20, and I1628-B22), the JGI (CSP 605), the German …

… and support all kinds of plants and animals, but with climate change driving more extreme wildfires, more and more … fast growth rates, and an ability to metabolize burned material — that many microbes in burned soils had in … this study was the ability of these organisms to degrade aromatic compounds from burned material. This study also sheds …

… to tackle metagenomes with low (40 genomes) to high (596 genomes) complexity. The environmental datasets included … from soil samples, researchers were able to reconstruct 79 minimally contaminated (<5%) draft genomes to >70% … flexibility in integrating results from both manual and automated binning methods also extends to harnessing future …

… evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life. Ultimately, the resulting comparative framework can inform the … is passed along to offspring supplying it with raw genetic materials and increased genome complexity, made sense. The … the potential of ferns as sources of novel genetic material with applications including ecological remediation …