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… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … assumed, due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans  … the last 40,000 years. The Impact Eelgrass represents one of the largest carbon sinks in the ocean — occupying just …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize … as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials … at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular … PhD, Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida NIH Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA …

… The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is committed to advancing the field of genomics through open access to resources and promoting … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science … and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and …

… industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, workshops, and informal networking events. JGI will present both a genome center talk and a tech talk. Stop by the JGI booth to learn about our user programs and how we can …

… . The Science Most species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex … polyploid sugarcane genome now underway as part of the JGI Community Science Program (CSP), a critical factor in …

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

… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns … on to Dori – a computer cluster owned and operated by the JGI and Berkeley Lab – to launch a jupyter notebook running …

… carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can …

… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These … available for future research. Hear from Rekha Seshadri (JGI) and Matt Escobar (California State San Marcos) about … and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …