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… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks … grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This is the first paper that describes sorghum’s … a limiting factor – before or after flowering. For the study, the team grew two sorghum varieties: one that …

… DOE RENEW initiative, undergraduate student Ti’Yanna Watson and graduate student LaMonika Dent worked with JGI … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … Alabama A&M University this fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. Ti’Yanna …

… Register here Book your stay at the conference venue This inaugural event will bring together … and applying laboratory ecosystems to help transition microbiome science from largely observational to … studies.  This conference is inspired by the vision of standardized fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs) designed for …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … data were generated, bioinformatic tools for binning metagenome data involved with mainly eukaryotic origins were … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help …

… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, are sharing their expertise in … characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal RNA gene …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … from individual environmental cells. The proof of principle study built off earlier approaches and offered a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental processes. The Science In a recent Microbiome paper … the analysis of mobile genetic elements across all of the metagenomes. Learn more about her time at the JGI here . …