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A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most … ZW rather than ZZ encodes for females. To better understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers …

Originally conceived as a UC Merced graduate student summer research experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to include undergraduate students. To date, more than …

Scientists have discovered that the candidate bioenergy feedstock switchgrass has adapted … we also hoped to use this unique opportunity to quantify how transitions to higher ploidy could be generating these …

… single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for understanding the microbiome … is through a method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were … the majority of the cell’s genome is missing from the final assembly. So while researchers are confident all the …

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number … cycles. “This is the first study to take a more global look at giant viruses by capturing genomes of uncultivated …

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Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that storage when a rainforest hits …

In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in … James Schable, Guangchao Sun and Vladimir Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into …

… viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science 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 by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a …

Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with … sequencing. A study  recently published in  Microbiome shows that the way nutrients flow through the ecosystem of … water and determined that the microbial communities look very different across each section. The biggest changes …

SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of … by AI and Machine Learning — JGI researchers and collaborators work to create FAIR datasets to maximize returns on … of harnessing large datasets, JGI researchers and users are looking for ways of making these experiments more repeatable …

FY2023 Spending Profile The JGI is funded primarily by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), a program within the DOE …