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Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … The reference genome of R570 is available on the JGI plant data portal,  Phytozome .   … The work (proposal: …

In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since been … In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal and …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at Austin and Michael Jewett of Northwestern … than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the cell-free system is that the cells are no longer …

The first time I did this internship in the summer of 2020, it was a time where the world literally stopped. …

… (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … Office of Science User Facility (contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231) with T.J.E. as grantee. J.-C.B. acknowledges the … Initiative of Excellence (IDEX Bordeaux; (ANR)-10-IDEX-03-02). T.E.M. and R.M. were supported by the International …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Los Alamos National … biofuels sourced from algae. The collaborative approach highlights how the pipeline could help researchers accelerate …

Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual … evolved from a white paper approved through JGI’s CSP New Investigator call to a full-scale submission. She aims …

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so the adage goes, it must be a duck. But if the duck gets infected … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. …

Hosted by the JGI and co-organized with NIST,  the goal of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) symposium was … and characterize uncultivated viruses, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore … and industrial applications.  Thank you to all of our in-person and virtual attendees! Click here for the …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to providing metagenome mining for computational analysis of the AT enzyme … look at the functional redundancy of ATs, this team leveraged the JGI’s DNA synthesis capabilities to express, purify …

… a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  … ten hundred most commonly used words in the English language. (Try it yourself  here .) She translated her abstract …