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… plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative biofuels and bioproducts. This study lends insights on how the … forests. As these trees were harvested for constructing buildings, the dry rot fungus migrated indoors and across … than its partner brown rots. The team’s results reflect the evolutionary gains and losses of S. lacrymans var. lacrymans …

… Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and … organisms and ecosystems. Scientists are engineering next-generation feedstocks through CRISPR-edited poplars with …

… UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by … JGI staff. According to Axel Visel and Zhong Wang, founders of this internship program, this was the largest turnout for …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential …

… A collaborative team led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the Institut … decomposition by the black morel, as well as the gene-expression programs encoding the biochemical processes … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… WHEN: May 6-10, 2019 WHERE: JGI With DOE investments in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based … Computing Facility (OLCF), NVIDIA, and the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, aims to explore …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … perform functional assessment, host prediction, and phylogenetic analysis. The development of CheckV helps … complete or near-complete viral genomes across both datasets, separating these from the vast majority of other …

… Diatoms, a group of tiny algae, are also known as “living opals” because of … beautiful properties of their silica shells. But what genes are responsible for such mesmerizing exteriors? Setsuko Wakao and Kris Niyogi, biologists at both UC …

… A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a … traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than …

… Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in the … they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across … University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear …