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… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles … This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant DEB-1442348. The work (proposal:  …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial … users will enable us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI …

… The JGI leverages its existing partnerships and develops others providing complementary expertise to advance the science and serve as impact multipliers . The JGI … and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE computational facilities (e.g., the National Energy Research …

… In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in … James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most … ZW rather than ZZ encodes for females. To better understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers …

… Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the … in understanding which processes change biodiversity, and how these changes affect the dynamics and functioning of …

…   Register here  Registration fees:  Early Bird rates available now General & … the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the 5th Viral EcoGenomics and Applications (VEGA) symposium will take place November … a “Viral Ecogenomics” community to foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated viral …

… Lawrence Livermore National Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process … measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots have made these experiments easier for scientists …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. … grasses using Panicum hallii (Hall’s panicgrass), by generating two complete genomes from varieties that diverged over … were subjected to a monthlong drought, and then half the plants were watered just before harvesting. As HAL2 has …

… Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and bioinformatic tool development/data analysis for … – University of Florida; University of California, Los Angeles …

… From left to right: [above] Olivia Ahern, Adriana Corales, Hugh Cross, Megan DeMarche, Joanne Emerson, Matthew Hudson, Megan Keller and Julia Kelliher; [below] … scientific questions relevant to the DOE’s mission, and I look forward to seeing their outcomes.” The annual CSP call …

… Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with … and importance in the fabric of our lives. In the United States, cotton production centers around two varieties: 95 …