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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is collaborating …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … shrubby grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

… Dr. Rokhsar joined the JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for … directed towards the sequencing, annotation, and analysis of three human chromosomes. After successful completion of the Human Genome Project, Professor Dr. Rokhsar ’s team … AB in Physics, Princeton University, NJ MS in Theoretical …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related … UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first … has a number of applications, including pain relief. The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a …

… Protein annotations provide insights into environmental … and researchers more about the patterns and functions of environmental microbes. Researchers can use the tool to correlate protein … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples … conditions. Additionally, high-temperature (thermophilic) microbes are of interest for their potential use in number …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms …   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial manufacturing.  …

… Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and … The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better understand how beneficial … to have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found … the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s 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 …