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… ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director … Blow, and their team have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied …

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 … One other finding that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey …

… from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported …

… 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 … soybean rust disease. Soybean itself is a  JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome sequence in …

A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis … mechanisms of morel with multi-omic approaches, our results revealed a striking capability of morel mycelium to acquire … carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the assimilated carbon into …

Register for the meeting here. Here are some sessions of interest (all times in PST unless otherwise noted): … of Arizona: “Spatial metabolic profiling in roots reveals plant specific responses to drought at the Biosphere 2 …

Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … which is a process analogous to photosynthesis for plants.” Another outstanding question is whether the new …

… in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … work included investigating sphagnum moss and the role the plant’s sex plays in its resiliency, as well as a Nature … rot fungi in the genus Lentinula. Dan Rokhsar looked to the evolutionary history of strawberries as part of a study to …

Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … Eloe-Fadrosh EA, et al. 2016. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal … Member, Duke University (2018-2020) Section Head, Microbial Evolution & Genomics, F1000Prime Reviewer for major journals …

… affect users and their access to technical capabilities JGI offers, as well as proposal review procedures and the organization of the JGI Annual Meeting. Any investigator who has been an … who represent the scientific areas of plant genomics, DNA synthesis and metabolomics, …