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… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the … Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key …

… An article summarizing the field of viral metagenomics, authored by JGI researchers Lee … , was  recently published in the journal  Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science . The following guest piece was … early 2020, people all over the world have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the … Vogel from the Plant Functional Genomics Group to study the effects of  Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on …

… (UEC) represents the JGI user community and is responsible for providing input and advice on JGI policies and … affect users and their access to technical capabilities JGI offers, as well as proposal review procedures and the organization of the JGI Annual Meeting. Any investigator who has been an …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … interest. As Doudna noted in her book, “These bits of information sent a little shiver of intrigue down my spine; if … nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some Type V …

… most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane … of the diversity present in R570 but shows the genomic effects of breeding practices that transformed sugarcane …

… biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, those molecules not essential for growth … survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due to the lack …

… You, Yong Zhang and Zhiping Zhong. (All images courtesy of the researchers) Each year, the JGI searches for novel … the genomic dynamics of biofuel-producing fungi, the effects of biochar on rhizosphere microbiomes, and the … in the November 2025 review. You can also find more information about the JGI’s  various proposal calls here. …

… in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a … the genomes of multiple species in a single experiment. “Effectively, you can identify conserved binding patterns … multicellular development. “DAP-Seq is the main source of information in the project,” Nagy added. “Since the FUNCODE is …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … of interest.” The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to associate climate … plants outside of their native habitat or cold hardiness zones, they have different levels of performance,” Juenger …

… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served as a … years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread … work, he established an efficient switchgrass transformation pipeline and, in collaboration with industrial …