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We count on livestock for food and fiber, but raising these animals also produces an atmosphere-warming gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come … bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those …

The JGI has diverse capabilities in: DNA and RNA sequencing, Sample and library preparation, DNA synthesis and pathway engineering Mass … shotgun sequencing Assembly, annotation ( Mycocosm ) 256/404 Fungal Standard Draft Whole genome shotgun sequencing …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The … floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full … and adaptations, scientists want to take a further look into identifying genes related to biotic stresses to …

Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers … Carefully read our proposal call description and ensure your idea is aligned Discuss your proposal idea … under the sequence cap? A(nswer): Proposals that are looking at multiple areas or multiple ways to answer …

… from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic … sources of new chemical diversity; the team identified what looked to be three groups of novel compounds, as well as …

Sequence files for all constructs should be emailed to  Miranda Harmon-Smith, Synthetic Biology Project Manager . … How To Create an Annotated GenBank File There are several easy-to-use …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, … fungi by James et al. and Sekimoto et al . In both studies, however, Olpidium was unexpectedly grouped with …

… probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying … land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how plant materials can be broken down for things like …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a … roles to genes. Sarah:  How many plants did you all look at? Avinash: We started off with 12 plants, which …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … sequence of a mycorrhizal fungus shifted the focus from looking at single organisms to applying a broader ecosystem … relationship with poplar … Fungal Datasets … Genome Inside: THE Bioenergy Tree …