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Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  energy.gov/science/office-science . …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial …

To understand how organisms adapt to extreme environments, Marike Palmer and Brian Hedlund study organisms … Hear how their recent work revealed more about the history of the Chloroflexota phylum and a new way of moving: a tail-like …

Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… (UEC) represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and … affect users and their access to technical capabilities JGI offers, as well as proposal review procedures and the organization of the JGI Annual Meeting. Any investigator who has been an …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … interest. As Doudna noted in her book, “These bits of information sent a little shiver of intrigue down my spine; if … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane … of the diversity present in R570 but shows the genomic effects of breeding practices that transformed sugarcane …

You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … the genomic dynamics of biofuel-producing fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, and the … in the November 2025 review. You can also find more information about the JGI’s  various proposal calls here. …

… biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due to the lack …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … the genomes of multiple species in a single experiment. “Effectively, you can identify conserved binding patterns … multicellular development. “DAP-Seq is the main source of information in the project,” Nagy added. “Since the FUNCODE is …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … of interest.” The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to associate climate … plants outside of their native habitat or cold hardiness zones, they have different levels of performance,” Juenger …