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A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science … to counter soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome …

Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize … as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  … the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass represents one of the largest carbon sinks in the ocean — occupying just …

In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These … available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about … and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support Analysis … function in bacteria. Since 2016, he has been the lead of the User Support Analysis group. The group performs … analysis and develops automated pipelines for analysis of resequencing, transcriptome, epigenome and other …

Biotechnology! Loretta Spencer served as a manyterm mayor of Huntsville, Alabama and is known for her contributions to … growing the economy of Rocket City. Grimwood is also co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center. … Grimwood heads the Library Construction group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began …

… carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community 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 …

… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that  recently … out to characterize the transcriptome – the complete set of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the … to analyze 500 metagenomes, it was the biggest project the JGI had ever put together.  The next 3 episodes are the …