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Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … to produce good yields under water limiting conditions. Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum (EPICON) is a … crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in the …

You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … accepted proposals.  The New Investigator call , part of our  Community Science Program , allows us to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers whose work aligns with DOE missions .  Below …

… is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel … under our Community Science Program . Below find a list of researchers whose proposals were accepted for 2024. … JGI’s  resources, these researchers will dive into a range of projects spanning the resilience of desert grasslands to …

Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … help solve energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that dumped …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot … microbial diversity is key to understanding the roles of microorganisms in regulating nutrient cycles, as well as …

As part of the ongoing partnership between DOE JGI and UC Merced to … Research Symposium , held February 6 at the University of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were among 5 UC … “It is a beautiful thing, that our young campus earned 25% of the research awards,” said Jesús Cisneros, director of …

… registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that … like nitrogen and phosphorus.  This way, the fungi of forest soils hold keys to tree health and carbon storage …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … own food and generate oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale …

… and relevance to the DOE’s mission.  Have someone proofread your proposal to make sure the goals, experimental … the 500-gigabase cap and that you don’t request outside of the sample range that’s listed. Q: What are the pros and cons of proposing a truly exploratory small proposal that might …

… genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that … (Berkeley Lab), has generated a more accurate phylogenetic tree tracking the evolution of  Dothideomycetes … sequenced genomes, they also built a high-quality phylogenetic tree for  Dothideomycetes . The data allowed the …