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Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and … thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. …

A special issue of Synthetic Biology celebrates research enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … more than 10 papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and … The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) …

Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have …

New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of livestock were more capable than …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA …

Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a … PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the …