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… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. … sharing.  Recently, researchers have been able to study both sides of this interaction up close, using RNA …

… 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 … a limiting factor – before or after flowering. For the study, the team grew two sorghum varieties: one that …

… In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M … Alabama A&M University this fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. Ti’Yanna … is the area surrounding the roots of a plant in the soil. And I’m specifically working with a grass plant that’s …

… Register here Book your stay at the conference venue This inaugural event will bring together researchers across major ecosystems and disciplines who are developing and applying laboratory ecosystems …

… Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly eukaryotic origins were … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics …

… To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the … Communication Manager Sarah Sharman recently interviewed study first author Avinash Sreedasyam, a HudsonAlpha senior … studies. We also looked at the cross-species comparable study, where plants were subjected to three nitrogen sources …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal RNA gene censuses.  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh ,  Metagenome Program lead, shone a spotlight on  ammonia …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat … species, some sphagnum may prefer the dryer, more elevated soil of the hummocks or the more water-logged hollows below. …

… change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the … aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of … period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows that the way …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle study built off earlier approaches and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which …