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Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … All of these cotton lineages have genomes approximately 2.3 billion bases or Gigabases (Gb) in size, and are hybrids … 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 been studying secondary metabolism in … 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 … yields and improving their abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The reference … and Environmental Research under Award Number DE-SC0018420. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …

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 … Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  in situ hybridization … Frontiers Group, the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea …

… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in … Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority …

Dr. Louie joined the JGI in 2014 to develop the metabolomics program, and in 2019 became … Rocha UN, Shi S, et al. Dynamic root exudate chemistry and microbial substrate preferences drive patterns in … 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 … … This work was supported through a USDA NIFA award (2021-67019-34608) to M.J.W. FTICR-MS analyses were performed …

… 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 … 19. Following the completion of the human genome project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and improvement … Award … Plant Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …