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… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as … . The meeting was a hybrid event, with guests joining onsite at the Integrative Genomics Building at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) as well from across the globe … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and … capable of naturally modifying lignin.  The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods …

… stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with … a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. The Impact Stable …

… a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. Researchers … by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 …

… Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes (they … For diploid species, sequencing programs generally focus on a genotype with two identical sets of chromosomes to …

… Program (ETOP) , researchers have developed and improved upon a tool that combines existing DNA sequence binning algorithms, allowing them to reconstruct more near-complete genomes from soil metagenomes … other in a community, and characterizing their individual contributions, is key to understanding their ecosystem …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a long history of dynamic evolution and rapid changes in both … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of … terpenes play key roles in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions. Terpenes are also economically important because of … by FAPDF grant “Nextree” 193.000.570/2009. For the portion of the work conducted by the Joint Genome Institute and …

… decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise gene targeting in the genome in the … also simplifies metabolic modeling and pathway optimization for enhanced lipid production. Also notable, researchers found it is missing 33 genes …

… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their structure. Scientists found both a gene …

… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been … trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment …