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Susannah Tringe Named 2020 DOE Lawrence Award Recipient
… DOE’s highest honors! Tringe, a microbiologist, was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial … Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s Microbial Systems …
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Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names ‘Nitrosococcus halophilus’ and ‘Nitrosomonas mobilis’
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A Grass Model to Help Improve Giant Miscanthus
… Biosciences Institute, the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … is especially efficient at this process thanks to a specialized kind of underground stem, the rhizome, that stores … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported by the Office of Science of the …
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Sequencing Sphagnum Leads to Discovery of Sex Chromosomes
… component of peatlands, processes  carbon can help maximize peatlands’ potential as carbon sinks and minimize their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and …
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Conserved genomic collinearity as a source of broadly applicable, fast evolving, markers to resolve species complexes: A case study using the lichen-forming genus Peltigera section Polydactylon
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How Microbes Can Protect Plants in Drier Straits
… New Investigator proposal was recently approved through the JGI Community Science Program, to use microbiome science to …
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Novel heavy metal resistance gene clusters are present in the genome of Cupriavidus neocaledonicus STM 6070, a new species of Mimosa pudica microsymbiont isolated from heavy-metal-rich mining site soil
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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Corymbia Genome Expands Terpene Synthesis Knowledge
… hundreds of terpene compounds have been characterized from eucalypts, a group of 900 tree species belonging to … at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, revealed the largest number of TPS genes of … proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to …
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An Enzyme Family that Helped Shape Nitrogen Metabolism on Our Planet
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to … enzyme tools into two groups: core metabolism and specialized metabolism.  For enzymes involved in core metabolism, …
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An Automated Tool for Assessing Virus Data Quality
… uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … attributed to viruses. The tool can be broadly utilized by the research community to gauge virus data quality …
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Making a Lichen Together
… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and his team at the JGI contributed …
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