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New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … component for the plant, like the brick-and-mortar of a building or the human skeleton. It’s more complex, and … JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even … peering into the function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae …

A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers … ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the … domesticate some 60 strains, inserting into them a genetic sequence that acts as a “landing pad.” Mouncey adds, …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … studied what happens to the tree’s physical traits and gene expression when the fungus is present. The Impact Black …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … buck. The research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … don’t have flagella, meaning they were lost in the evolutionary adaptation to marine environments. These … loss of cell walls and a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more … Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

…   Each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through … and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function.  Below find a list of the six …

Twice each year, the JGI accepts proposals for state-of-the-art functional genomics research from potential users who need help translating genomic information into biological function. Through … and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function.  Below find a list of the final …

Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious … often due to, for example, tight regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in native hosts, the complexity of …

… 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 … microbiomes that influence algal diversity and gene expression. Sailing from pole to pole on four research …

… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship internship program … and other staff gathered at the Integrative Genomics Building, the JGI’s home at Berkeley Lab, as representatives …