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… carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver …

… as impact multipliers . The JGI has a long-term partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology for our Plant Program, and is further leveraging the services of the … Genomics Institute for DNA and RNA extractions to support plant and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE …

… together over 400 proposal collaborators and co-authors with affiliations at over 180 organizations in 29 U.S. … along with 100 of his colleagues in the comparative plant genomics community. The project’s aim is to generate … representing all major evolutionary lineages in the land plant tree of life.   As of the start of 2022, there were …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing … But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced … of them archaea. The Quake lab had previously collaborated with the JGI on a proposal using this approach through the … (ETOP). Following that work, they partnered once more with JGI Microbial Program head Tanja Woyke and her Single …

… 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 plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …

… of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers or wires to mimic an insect or a particular … Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they … bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact Microbes are known to be key contributors to the planet’s …