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… in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play a pretty important role in the cycling of … about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the pandemic, they took the JGI on a sampling field … initiative called Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) . Through FICUS, the researchers …

… to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish … generated by the JGI more than a decade ago. Having these datasets will assist researchers in moving toward functional …

… always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … — scientists can better fine-tune their engineering efforts of both plants and root microbiomes to grow energy … (Sunny) Liao of the University of Florida collected forest samples of poplar and soil from Washington and …

… living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah … Community Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” focuses on anthropogenic impacts on … on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. Inspired by Randall …

… was being waged. In the JGI@25 video below, Susan Lucas, former JGI Production Department Head and current ESnet … the people and resources from these three national labs to form the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 1997. Over the next … years, and in collaboration with researchers at the Stanford Human Genome Center, JGI staff worked around the clock …

… Gilman, Louis Graf, Yuxi Guo, Shaomei He, Vayu Hill- Maini, Forrest Lefler, Pok Man (Bob) Leung and Huang Li; [middle] … courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel research projects from PIs who have not led any … Community Science Program , allows us to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers whose work …

… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have … structure. Scientists found both a gene likely important for sex determination and a shared genetic architecture with …

… in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … by Jeremy Schmutz of the JGI and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Phil McClean of North Dakota State … Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those with severely limited income,” McClean said. …

… surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on … both local conditions and the movement of microbes through forest canopies.  The Impact This work, enabled in part by … the capacity to metabolize the same chemicals conifers use for defending themselves, which has important implications …

… cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … acetoclastic. All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production known as Mcr. Until recently, the Mcr … of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Stanford University, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and the U.S. …

… reductase system, researchers could open avenues for using bacteria to produce ethylene and more.  Microbes … abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of the ocean simply signals we’re near the beach. For bacteria, that salty, slightly stinky air is a rich …

… . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … understanding of how these bacteria evolved could help inform engineering microorganisms for biofuel production and … Berkeley National Laboratory, has unveiled these motility tools in hot spring  Chloroflexota .  Ocean-dwelling  …