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New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components … plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing … But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s …

…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The … Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are … the virions out and moving the carbon within the microbial community. These findings also suggest that lytic viruses …

Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … have scientists of Dr. Woyke’s caliber support the JGI User community in accessing our resources and help them to push …

Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy … new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas … Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao Ma. And Karen …

JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the Berkeley Lab …

… (JGI) and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for “Empowering Automated Laboratories: … to stay informed … The JGI and EMSL are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national scientific user … and environmental science. They provide the scientific community access to cutting-edge capabilities for …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy … if the gene is actually essential. Through the JGI’s  Community Science Program , the scientists thus set out to …

… to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … Woyke said. “Yet the project took us into a very different direction,” she added. Volland took on the …

For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s vigilant stewardship as JGI’s … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – …