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… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that … from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus … annotating and analyzing the genome in order to find the genetic traits responsible for  P. trifoliata ’s hardiness, …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit … conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and archaea. Many of the samples shared a …

… (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … carbon captured from the atmosphere in a process that generates energy. The MPI team ultimately aims to develop an … composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director of the MPI …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other … loss of cell walls and a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can … and evolutionary genomics .” Understanding the nature and genetic basis of functional traits in sphagnum growth and …

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns … project is to determine how mutations in plant transporter genes affect microbiome composition and plant growth. Under …

… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Methodologies workshops. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prizewinning team at the Supercomputing …

… Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research is focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and … insights into the diversity and important ecological roles of microeukaryotes in terrestrial ecosystems. Additionally, …