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Understanding Wildfire Recovery, Starting in Soil
… at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the … and growth.  This study builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful … for User Science (FICUS) initiative . In this program, researchers leverage the capabilities of more than …
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Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space
… microbial genomes becoming available to the global research community.  Published January 17, 2025 in Science Advances , researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Biological and Environmental Research (BER) missions. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …
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A Collaboration to Improve Plant Genome Annotations Across Species
… improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently … two species, one of which is sweet sorghum Rio from a JGI Community Science Program project and another is Lupinus albus from a …
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At the nexus of three kingdoms: the genome of the mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita provides insights into plant, endobacterial and fungal interactions
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Mechanically induced localisation of SECONDARY WALL INTERACTING bZIP is associated with thigmomorphogenic and secondary cell wall gene expression
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Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses
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High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant
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Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Analyses Reveal the Structure and Dynamics of a Dechlorinating Community Containing Dehalococcoides mccartyi and Corrinoid-Providing Microorganisms under Cobalamin-Limited Conditions
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An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria
… A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a … CRAGE in a select group of bacterial strains as part of the Community Science Program (CSP)  Functional Genomics proposal call. …
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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 help make …
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Gotta Catch 'Em Gall
… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures called … how this project unfolded, and how they worked with the JGI's metabolomics program to find out more about these …
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2025 Progress Report
… JGI researchers demonstrate how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational science … and professional expertise to support the global research community in studies of complex biological and environmental …
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