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… flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A diverse group of plant-produced organic compounds, terpenes play key roles in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions. … proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to …
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… the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science facility, have increased the … approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & … were found in diverse habitats including the air, plant rhizosphere, wastewater, and even animal and human …
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… from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial … producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural …
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… What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , an attractive addition to your … biology and the economic terrain to help make the plant a viable alternative to fossil fuels. …
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… has been leading the Systems Infrastructure Team at the JGI since 2020. Before joining the JGI, he has been working on the boundary of life science and … to fit the needs of the dynamic environment that is JGI. Infrastructure built by his team is unbureaucratic and …
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… polyploid sugarcane genome now underway as part of the JGI Community Science Program (CSP), a critical factor in … crop that very efficiently converts solar energy into plant biomass, which can then be crushed to extract the … proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI was part of an international team led by researchers …
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… DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through … Laboratory (EMSL) and the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for support from 53 received … gene functions that may be relevant to both algae and land plants. Within the biogeochemistry group, one of the four …
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… targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two … develop genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial … oil production. The organism uses specific chemical tags on DNA to control which genes are active. Researchers …
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… than 500 species of fungi. The Impact Interactions between plants and fungi run the gamut from mutually beneficial to antagonistic. In fungi, 5mC is often found in transposable … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and others like …
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… estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity of plants. To put this evolutionary timescale in perspective, … with the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI)’s Fungal and Algal Science Program and JGI users have … toward 10,000 annotated genomes, this infrastructure advantage becomes even more critical. With roughly half of all …
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