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… of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions, and … as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, through its  …

… UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy Axel Visel … Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several …

… the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … for computational analysis of the AT enzyme family, the JGI provided DNA synthesis capabilities to enable functional …

… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three … learned so much in terms of scientific approach and as a plant biologist, I have learned so many techniques and …

… internship program between the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started … staff gathered at the Integrative Genomics Building, the JGI’s home at Berkeley Lab, as representatives highlighted … After working on his post-doctoral position with the Plant and Microbe Interaction group at Oak Ridge National …

… organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly … crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is octoploid (eight …

… most widespread type of mycorrhizal fungi, live within a plant’s root system. They form mutually beneficial relationships with over 80% of land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how … HT-SIP is a capability available to request through  the JGI proposal calls . …

… students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with … own perspectives. The interns from this cohort and their JGI mentors are listed below, along with their project focus … Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns …

… cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the Erb lab through the CSP Functional Genomics call, the JGI synthesized library of genes that code for Enoyl-CoA …

… endobacteria, the Rhizopus fungus cannot act as a plant pathogen, it cannot reproduce asexually, and … the host. Using the mutualistic relationship between the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizopus microsporus (Rm) and … and experimented with the fungi and bacteria, while the DOE JGI team sequenced and annotated a host genome (Rm ATCC …

… the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility located at … data, approximately half of which was generated by the JGI, to uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single … team and is the head of the Viral Genomics group at the JGI, thinks that if you’re a virus or a microbe with a DGR, …

… and the biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … superphylum of extremophilic archaea first outlined by JGI scientists and their collaborators in 2013. While most … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, experimentally …