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… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes … interact; beyond bacteria, these samples harbored fungal genomes, including a novel Leotiomycetes species and …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The … that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers demonstrated the efficacy and potential of … Mouncey and research scientist Hiroshi Otani. Both are members of the JGI’s Secondary Metabolite Science Program, …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … The Science A team led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, … Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community …

… believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around the globe. Now, …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … latest article, published January 27, is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for more sustainable … researcher Sara Calhoun, data scientist Stephen Mondo, and  Fungal and Algal program lead Igor Grigoriev took readers on …

We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported …

The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce … crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program … soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome sequence in …

Hey everyone. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the series of interviews we recorded at the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (SIMB) Natural …

The Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems …

Researchers from the JGI recognized for their “significant influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of … work included investigating sphagnum moss and the role the plant’s sex plays in its resiliency, as well as a Nature …

Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came … one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI teams, who were already …