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… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … As part of efforts to characterize global microbial diversity with an aim to improve predictive ecosystems …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … 1 billion years of evolution in Kingdom Fungi — from phylogenetic relationships to evolution of genomic mechanisms — resulting in the diversity of fungal phenotypes and a myriad of ecologies.” …

… to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development and application of advanced mass spectrometry approaches and model … Zengler K et al . EcoFAB: Advancing microbiome science through standardized fabricated …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the … their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … to produce good yields under water limiting conditions. Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum (EPICON) is a … and how these conditions impact the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), …

… survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … is a technique researchers can use to integrate large genetic payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … each variety stores sugars and sequesters carbon. 2015: Epigenetic Control of Drought Tolerance in Sorghum (EPICON) … over 50 other diverse sorghum genomes. Deep sequencing and genetic linkage analysis improve the genome’s accuracy, and …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … who also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both …   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days … they need. Karolina is working to better understand what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying …

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. For millions of … for tuning this symbiosis. “Those are great candidates for genetic engineering. Our hope is that the community at large …

JGI interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  Community Science Program (CSP) call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … generating their  genome sequences to improve breeding by genetic improvements. Apomixis is asexual reproduction …

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. For millions of … for tuning this symbiosis. “Those are great candidates for genetic engineering. Our hope is that the community at large …