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… Leveraging massive comparative genomics to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a future-ready foundation     … valleys, these organisms have diversified into an estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity of plants. To … allows for revealing patterns that would be invisible when studying species in isolation. The comparative power has …

… researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his 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 …

… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The accepted proposals come …

… holds keys to drought and flood resilience, biomass production for fuels, and growth in poor soils. In addition to bolstering sorghum fields, understanding this plant … to build this pangenome, including a reassembly of the BTx623 reference genome. This cultivar has been the reference …

… and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … and because anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy to make … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. …

… 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 … of plants have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, …

… Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered to be a scientific contribution? This session will …

… JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one way or another, they’ve all mentioned how invaluable …

… As part of the JGI’s 25th anniversary celebration, the 2022 Annual Meeting … the Human Genome Project out to the future of the institution. Their talks shed light on how the JGI was established, …

… work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane …

… to explore how microbes influence people and the environment. This includes studying the diversity, physiology and community ecology of microbes sampled from the natural environment. …