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… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to … Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest buyers of cocoa, is collaborating … JGI plant portal Phytozome at  phytozome-next.JGI.doe.gov . One of the goals in updating the genome annotation was …

… RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The … three distinct RNA polymerases; in bacteria there is only one type of RNA polymerase responsible for each gene. These … sets associated with functions like stress responses and cellular differentiation. The tough part is identifying the …

…   For years, researchers have known that many datasets miss a key … Simon Roux (JGI) as they talk about their recent work on a time series from Sweden’s Stordalen Mire. …

… Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! … among those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by … tool to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes. The paper appeared in  …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … plants (endophytes). These include genes that degrade plant cell walls and break down plant sugars. The results also … colonize roots by degrading the plant cell wall component pectin. The results therefore predicted that these …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles … of needle-surface communities.  Part of the work was done through a summer project in the JGI-UC Merced Internship … the analysis of mobile genetic elements across all of the metagenomes. Learn more about her time at the JGI here . …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is located in one of those counties. The shelter-in-place order has since … Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed …