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Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in … grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This is the first paper that describes sorghum’s …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and … The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their …

Dr. Rokhsar joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2000 as the founding … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of … IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY … Publications … 2018 Marthella Foskett Brown Chair, …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … to their economies. It also plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for …

Twice a year, the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program … metabolism, work on which she will expand with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the … with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of this …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is … students (and their mentors) how to begin establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the … which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … out to characterize the transcriptome – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a …