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This group is responsible for institutional strategic planning, talent management, and convening of advisory committees to guide the direction of programs and initatives to enhance the JGI’s preeminence …

This group is responsible for institutional strategic planning, talent management, and convening of advisory committees to guide the direction of programs and initiatives to enhance the JGI’s preeminence …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … into many products; giving scientists a bigger bang for their buck. The research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … of processing these sturdy materials, rumen microbes and their enzymes are an optimal study subject that could lead … environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or more genes are encoded on a single molecule of mRNA – in two …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is … The process is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). In their analysis, they found the salinity changes led the …

Genomics call is to enable users to perform state-of-the-art functional genomics research and to help them translate genomic information into biological function.  The emphasis is on … synthesis and ‘omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function, particularly those not readily …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling … into a plant’s root cells, and both organisms rearrange their cells around this structure to facilitate sharing.  … This team quantified the expression of over 12,000 fungal genes, in addition to associated plant genes.  Hear more …