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… 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 conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun …

… microscopic algae have managed to adapt to a unique set of conditions in polar waters, including vast shifts in … other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function … across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. …

… joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and … of Florida, working with Valérie de Crécy-Lagard on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in … of proteins involved in metal homeostasis. She began her independent research career at Brookhaven National Laboratory …

… joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and … the Eukaryotic Genome Program (2010-2019), and JGI Chief Informatics Officer (2013-2016). Dr. Rokhsar joined the …

… participants in an online workshop to harness deep learning for metagenomic data.  Metagenomic data, or DNA sequencing … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid … to assign microbial taxa (Andrew Tritt of CRD and, independently, Ying Zhang of the University of Rhode Island), …

… proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved … 80 full proposals, resulting from 95 letters of intent. For the first time, 63 percent of the accepted proposals … of Delaware is interested in learning how environmental conditions influence viral-host interactions in three …

… surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on … sites, reflecting ecological patterns shaped by both local conditions and the movement of microbes through forest canopies.  The Impact This work, enabled in part by …

… most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, scientists have shed … and Mexico. Based on the study, it would seem that once conditions became right for eelgrass, it was able to spread … change.  Once properly calibrated, each molecular clock independently provided timepoints of eelgrass’s major global …

… microbial hosts. Lately, researchers have used culture-independent approaches to gain insight into the  genomes of … on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses. The … recently, employing cultivation-independent approaches has yielded discovery of thousands of new giant viruses, rapidly …

… improved genome assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | … to provide an improved eucalyptus genome assembly generated using advanced technologies to reconstruct the complete …