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… for a steadily growing worldwide population. Anuvia Plant Nutrients , a small Florida business producing bio-based plant nutrition products that target soil enrichment, is …

… User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The work was supported by a JGI Director’s Science … program (LDRD) entitled ‘Tackling microbial-mediated plant carbon decomposition using “function-driven” genomics’. …

… evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed on decaying plant matter (saprotrophs) have transitioned to the … genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal species. The 62 mycorrhizal species include 29 …

… chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and …

… Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . The global … brands couldn’t exist without cocoa.  But today the plant is under threat due to climate change and devastating … with others to develop healthier and more productive cacao plants and ensure there will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow …

… Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth … stages of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nature Plants 10, 673–688 Vyshenska et al. 2023. A standardized … J.S. et al. 2019. Probing the active fraction of soil microbiomes using BONCAT-FACS.  Nature Comm 10(1) 1-10 …

… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development … (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program since 2011. Prior to joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute, Dr. …

… of the latest call , a total of 70 graduate students from 52 universities were selected to carry out part of their … in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions of plants with their associated microbiomes. Tringe was also Kaze’s mentor during her 2018 …

… The JGI’s Genomes OnLine Database celebrates 25 years as a vital resource for data contextualization The Science Since its launch 25 years ago, the  Genomes OnLine Database has matured from … data portals including the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system, enhancing genome annotations and …

… mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the significant role sex plays in how … a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the … which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants don’t fully decompose in …

… are available on the JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) portal. The study,  published in the  … funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 and DBI-2047598 to K.A. We thank the Department of …