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… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant … California at Santa Barbara  recently published a paper in  Nature Microbiology offering irrefutable evidence that … The authors acknowledge their funding sources: Office of Biological and Environmental Research …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi … of which microbes are present. This study, published in Nature Microbiology , went a step further, using both DNA …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The … efficacy of RIViT-seq, researchers recently characterized 12 sigma factors and were able to identify the associated … target genes in 11 of those. That work published in Nature Communications on June 17 , 2022, was conducted by …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from the U.S. Department of … suite, as well as sequences from the Global Ocean Virome 2.0 dataset based on open ocean samples. CheckV identified a …

… and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes … of the gene-rich part of the sugarcane genome. Reported in Nature Communications , their approach relied in part on … as a reference. The final sugarcane sequence generated is 382 Mb; 25,316 protein-coding gene models were predicted with …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery … of the Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program in 2013, a team of researchers has been working on improving … pressing energy and environmental scientific challenges. In Nature Microbiology , a team led by longtime JGI …

… view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how genes are regulated is like deciphering the complex wiring behind a city’s power grid. Just as … these barriers are falling. As  published online in  Nature Plants  on July 15, researchers have developed …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. … fungi synthesize molecules that are sources of new chemical diversity; the team identified what looked to be three …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … to that of a free-living organism. First discovered in 2011, Nanohaloarchaea are part of the DPANN (Diapherotrites, … and omics techniques enabled the team to closely study the nature of the Nanohaloarchaeota species’ symbiotic …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science … scientists had suspected. A team  recently reported in  Nature Plants that the zealexin pathway has an “hourglass” … sesquiterpenoids, National Science Foundation Plant-Biotic Interactions Program (grant no. 1758976 to E.S. and P.Z.) …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … noted that even prior to the sequence being published in  Nature , immediate progress had already been made … Glycine max on Phytozome …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic …