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Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in …

… some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — …

… a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant … alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable …

… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, …

… and dark. But there are hotspots on the ocean floor — underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents — where lively …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 … Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s …

TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated …

The Department of Energy's Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE … Adam Riesselman of Harvard University worked with DOE JGI's Sam Deutsch. Learn more about the DOE Computational …