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Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … Some plants and fungi have mutually beneficial (e.g., mycorrhizal) relationships, but not all plants and fungi can … of Excellence ARBRE (ANR- 11-LABX-0002-01), the Region Lorraine, the European Regional Development Fund, and the …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … genome sequenced. Having this first genome sequence of a mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from looking at single … and Environment (INRAE). Today, there are nearly 200 mycorrhizal fungal genomes publicly available on the fungal …

… number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand … have to do to tackle that. But there’s opportunities for borrowing and porting parts from nature — enzymes, …

Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative … weeks at the DOE JGI, Olmstead saw a few familiar faces, one of them belonged to his research adviser Axel Visel. …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix … with Y chromosomes in mammals: a structure that helps correct deleterious mutations. The Impact Shrub willow and … plant biologist at West Virginia University (WVU), led the study’s international team, which included scientists from …

… clearly. The Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … can rapidly create genetic variation in its progeny. The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant …

On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted … to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by more than 75 JGI staff. According to Axel …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon …

… team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … us to assess CRAGE’s impact, including how this application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already demonstrated CRAGE as a versatile engineering system that …

… natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg … (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over to the side of the road to collect small …

A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on presentations to peatlands Travis Lawrence sits in his … slides and anticipating the inevitable questions about the study’s methods and analysis, Lawrence is spending time on …