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Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has … H, Mouncey NJ. New keys to unlock the treasure trove of microbial natural products. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2021 … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …

… with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A … yields and improving their abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The reference …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … from environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  in situ hybridization …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … three Genome Watch articles. “Given the great expertise in microbial genomics and metagenomics of the …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority … American Academy of Microbiology (AAM). She has led JGI’s Microbial Genomics Program since 2009 and heads the Single …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, … Rocha UN, Shi S, et al. Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly. Nat Microbiol. 2018;3: … Sci Rep. 2013;3: 1656. … Education … Selected Publications …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, …

… 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 to understand how. …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working … Award … Plant Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …