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… The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … burned soils had in common.  To complete this analysis, a multi-institutional team of researchers collected soil …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … challenges, characterizing viruses is a key step. For decades, though, many viruses have been somewhat … over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes. That study multiplied the number of known viral genes by a factor of …

… soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in … understanding of this symbiosis could offer improvements in multiple directions. On the fungi side, underground … this symbiosis. “Those are great candidates for genetic engineering. Our hope is that the community at large will …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … and investigate how transporter proteins regulate the production of root exudates, which overall influences the …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … range of biotechnological applications, including biofuel production. Efforts such as the 1000 Fungal Genomics Project …

… array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the absence of all the other letters of the alphabet. … stone to studying many genomes simultaneously through multiDAP, which allows researchers to conduct comparative … materials, which could be useful for industrial biofuel production, and multicellular development. “DAP-Seq is the …

… at the JGI’s history, from its beginnings in the sequencing for the Human Genome Project out to the future of the … the FICUS program, through which researchers can access multiple DOE facilities with a single proposal. From the … many more years of enabling clean energy and renewable production — and congratulated JGI on the anniversary. “This …