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… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … to harvest all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of  in vitro and  in vivo … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US …

… other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  The Impact … chemicals not typically found in oceans or soils.  A recent study published in  The ISME Journal     focused on a class … small, it’s possible flagella would be a liability in open water — requiring more energy for the bacteria to orient and …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected as the 2025 recipient of … (ASM). Roux leads the Viral Genomics group within the JGI Metagenome Program, and coordinates the development of the …

… support agriculture – such as efficiently using dwindling water resources and restoring and maintaining healthy soils … bioenergy security for a steadily growing worldwide population. Anuvia Plant Nutrients , a small Florida business producing bio-based plant nutrition products that target soil enrichment, is partnering with …

… Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 … production, nutrient cycling, greenhouse gas emissions, and water recycling.” Tringe is the interim director of Berkeley …

… need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these …

… enabled by the JGI DNA Synthesis Science Program. Fashioning DNA outside a cell is key to interrogating what genes … Aquatic Science and Technology in September 2021. Robinson stressed that the DNA Synthesis Science team’s expert advice … and her own as an early career researcher. “We were able to study hydrocarbon biosynthesis at a scale that would …

… Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration …

… proposals have been accepted from 70 full submissions based on 92 letters of intent. Additionally, 40 percent … call. Richard Dick of The Ohio State University aims to study plant drought resilience in the Sahel, an arid region … and these intercropping efforts appear to be redistributing water availability. By sequencing the millet rhizosphere and …

… The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. … metabolites are useful in a variety of fields including biotechnology, medicine and agriculture. This comprehensive … and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( smc.jgi.doe.gov ) is designed …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. … called iPHoP (pronounced “eye-pop”,  freely available online ). It combines and evaluates multiple predictions to … of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, Early Career Research Program awarded …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle study built off earlier approaches and offered a way for … isolated from the microbes found in the oil plume from Deepwater Horizon oil spill led to a draft genome of the first …