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… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from … methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in …

… Gareth Gillard, Audrey Goeckner, Jennifer Goff, Sarah Gonzalez Henao, Yang Hai, Julia G. Harenčár, Sarah Hu; [Row … N. Zepernick.    Each year, the JGI solicits novel research projects from PIs who have not led any previously accepted … microbial pathways for high-value bioproducts, and plant–microbe interactions that enhance crop resilience and soil …

… easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two different methods; … DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called Multiple Displacement Amplification, and most genomes that were acquired through it were …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do …

… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. … Program makes genomes and multi-omics data from JGI CSP projects publicly available at the PhycoCosm portal . …

… analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a … can lead to changes in protein structures and functions, but the DNA bases themselves can also be modified. The best-known example of a modified DNA base is a methylation of the base cytosine at the 5th position on its carbon …

… zu Berlin   has developed an atlas that maps gene expression patterns in the  Arabidopsis root, profiling nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  … Phytozome and will be available for future single-cell projects.” The Berkeley Lab  Biosciences Area has been …

… decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise gene targeting in the genome in the … also simplifies metabolic modeling and pathway optimization for enhanced lipid production. Also notable, researchers … genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial manufacturing.  …

… To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely …

… Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global … of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… Congratulations to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! They are among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics for … Jeremy Schmutz Susannah Tringe Tanja Woyke Below are a few projects each of these researchers were involved in, …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … have also harnessed the switchgrass gardens for other projects. At the 2021 JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked …