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… brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global cocoa bean production … In 2010, a draft first genome of  Theobroma cacao  – the tree that produces cacao beans – was released by a Mars, … at  phytozome-next.JGI.doe.gov . One of the goals in updating the genome annotation was developing a high quality …

… data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers … and Environment (INRAE). Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples …

… Our lab is using mass spectrometry based metabolite profiling to provide direct biochemical datasets to improve our understanding of microbial metabolism. Of particular interest is … the distributed and dynamic metabolite networks of environmental microbes and how they transform their environment. …

… New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) Symposium … Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA)  … The JGI is represented at conferences year round; find out where our researchers will …

… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria and its contemporaries. … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …

… cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered …

… The focus of this group, in recent years, has been to bring … little to no genetic tools enabling heterologous expression and functional exploration.  The developed strains … integrated into a taxonomically diverse suite of microbial chassis strains for elevated opportunity for …