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… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be … researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

… JGI Metabolomics Program , along with Jenny Mortimer, Director of Plant Systems Biology at the Joint BioEnergy … A(nswer): Possibly, it would depend on the sample. However, we don’t do this because they typically contain … you give us an idea about the scale of an average study? How many samples are typically involved? How long does it …

… land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play a …

… The Sequence to Function: Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from academia, … Stop by the JGI booth to learn about our user programs and how we can help advance your science. …

… depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a …

… alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this episode, we peek into how scientists Aindrila Mukhopadhyay and Steve Singer are …

… the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key gene … existed in close algal relatives  to terrestrial plants showcases how early plants built upon an ancient genetic …

… Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) will be at Booth 509. Stop by and chat with representatives from KBase and the JGI about collaborative science opportunities. Learn how to apply for a project with the JGI Community Science Program, and how you can use the KBase system to accelerate your plant …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's … been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or … are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the … host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for …