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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be … soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing … better? We could unlock new innovations to drive more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be … researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes rubber, but it’s vulnerable to disease and climate shifts. So researchers are looking …

… will defend his dissertation. Some of his research was conducted at the JGI through the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student … program , which awards graduate students the opportunity to pursue part of their thesis research at one of the DOE …

… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software … gRNA-SeqRET , an organism-agnostic CRISPR gRNA design tool BOOST , which provides a suite of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, …

Congratulations to Susannah Tringe , one of eight scientists and engineers who received the 2020 Ernest … Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, and JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s …

Three stories of JGI-supported research, connected to nutrient cycles. Francis Martin and Lucas Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor … into seagrass meadows' carbon sequestration with insights from Adam Healey and Xiao Ma. And Karen Serrano and Benjamin …

Dr. Roux joined the JGI in 2017 to lead viral genomics research as part of the … 2018 Senior Editor: Microbiology Resource Announcements … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision … and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through early introduction to the resources and disciplines advanced by the JGI, we …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short …

… at the conference venue This inaugural event will bring together researchers across major ecosystems and disciplines … laboratory ecosystems to help transition microbiome science from largely observational to reproducible mechanistic studies.  This conference is inspired by …