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… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably … orange ripens only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar …

… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving … addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … Blow, and their team have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied …

… Sequence-based studies — from metagenomics to single-cell work — have … on giant virus diversity, and how sequencing and bioinformatics have sped up the study of giant viruses. The … approaches. One way of detecting giant viruses in sequence data is read-mapping: using giant virus reference genomes to …

…   Register here  Registration fees:  Early Bird rates available now General & Berkeley Lab … and functionally explore viral genetic diversity toward innovative biotechnological and industrial … VEGA 26 will take place at the UC Berkeley MLK Building, in the … of virus-host interactions and phage-based technologies for microbiome manipulation, the VEGA symposium represents a …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome of the earth, but most … U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https:// …

… new members to the JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa … of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies … in giving a voice to JGI users who feel that certain data sharing policies fail to represent the needs of large …

… Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has … Category Fungal and Algal Program head Igor Grigoriev , Plant & Animal Science category Plant Program Library … Lead Dan Rokhsar , Molecular Biology & Genetics Staff Data Scientist Asaf Salamov, Plant & Animal Science category …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of … other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function … his team then linked those species-level observations with data on microalgal communities across different ocean …

… Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock … knowledge gained from 8X switchgrass is a valuable resource towards the effort to generate climate resilient switchgrass … by our new switchgrass manuscript , we plan to use existing data as well as generating additional genomic resources to …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month … Garden Club, hosted a DIY Succulent Workshop and Plant Sale. All year, the JGI helps support finding … those big goals with their everyday activities, striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … within their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and … to build on Hungate 1000 genomes and cultures to work toward a variety of methane-mitigation goals. One aim is …