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New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose … JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study … conditions: unburned, low, moderate and high-burn severity sites. From those samples, they reconstructed and examined …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year … methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or …

… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … … About the JGI Chief Informatics Officer … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that … from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus … Journal.  this study included the discovery of candidate genes that confer resistance to citrus greening disease. …

Dr. Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 … dissertation in life sciences 2006 … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container … stresses, and its transcriptome to learn more about which genes expression patterns. The analysis led to the …