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Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the journal Science . It detailed how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are …

… to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never heard of trifoliate … orange ripens only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the …

The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce … crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program … soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome sequence in …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By …