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… On February 8, 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the Environmental … (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory when applying to the FY2024 EMSL-JGI FICUS collaborative proposal call . Letters of … and the use of laboratory resources. Capacity for the plant growth chamber is limited so that will have to be …

… mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by the U.S. … acids (aa) in size, half that of previously known class 2 CRISPR enzymes that are typically 950—1400 aa. They were initially identified by searching for Cas12d homologs across IMG/M’s assembled metagenomic data. It …

… Kjiersten Fagnan began working with JGI in 2012 as a NERSC bioinformatics computing consultant, after … into scalable methods for scientific data analysis. In 2014 Dr. Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a … UC CORO participant, 2021 Member of the Networking and Information Technology …

… a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring  … bacteria lack complete biochemical pathways to break down plant material on their own, they likely cooperate with … that the bacteria have enzymes to synthesize or degrade plant hormones, meaning its land-dwelling counterparts could …

… Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon … At HudsonAlpha, she has continued to contribute across JGI plant genomes. She has appeared on the annual Highly Cited Researchers list assembly by Clarivate Analytics. In 2020, she was named a Yellowhammer Woman of Impact.     …

… Phytozome workshop held during the June 2022 CROPS Conference at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Phytozome is the Plant Comparative Genomics portal of the Department of …

… developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather … and climate is estimated to be larger than any other single plant genus. Peatlands accumulate partially decomposed … matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, …

… interests in algae and secondary metabolites. A total of 27 proposals have been  approved through the annual  … to crowdsource antimicrobial discovery for the control of plant pathogens, partnering with 600 instructors worldwide … which species of mycorrhizal fungi are important for poplar plant health, in part to learn how these species can …

… nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and … clusters showed a >95 % accuracy in correctly predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S et al.  Studies in Mycology , 2020.) Using whole genome data from newly sequenced genomes, …

… to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled … Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are they both actually doing the job? By … the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are more active in fixing and …

… compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform how scientists can more easily convert plants into carbon-neutral biofuels . What’s more, many … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. …

… communities, with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope … most widespread type of mycorrhizal fungi, live within a plant’s root system. They form mutually beneficial relationships with over 80% of land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how …