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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Within days of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that …

… 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 … species, some sphagnum may prefer the dryer, more elevated soil of the hummocks or the more water-logged hollows below. …

… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of … a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group. “Turns out that despite all … bacterial and archaeal sequences. Kyrpides heads the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group, and Ivanova leads the …

… Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … and the interactions of plants with their associated microbiomes. Tringe was also Kaze’s mentor during her 2018 … in which she explored anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome composition and metabolism, work on which she …

… Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team … Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials … We acknowledge the use of deletion strains generated by Grant P01 GM-068087 “Functional Analysis of …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers have … that allow it to access nutrients easily from a variety of soils and has a high tolerance of extreme water conditions … summer droughts, these plants were better able to uptake soil water compared to the other plants. The team used QTL …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to a sustainable …

… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. … Using a combination of genomic, quantitative genetic, landscape, and niche modeling approaches, we contrasted the … More genome copies in switchgrass leads to increased climate flexibility …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … genomes that are both large and complex. The first publication of a genome generated by the OGG initiative — … Filling in the Plant Tree of Life … Genome Insider …

… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. … this way, encouraging this symbiosis could improve the way soils store carbon from the atmosphere. For plants, boosting …

… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo … together, learned from JGI’s Nikos Kyrpides that his Microbiome Data Science group was also working on RNA virus … datasets from the JGI’s Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system. “We then looked into many more …