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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … each variety stores sugars and sequesters carbon. 2015: Epigenetic Control of Drought Tolerance in Sorghum (EPICON) …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … This year’s annual CSP call had five areas of emphasis: genes to function, plant and algal functional genomics, …

… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that … orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  Citrus genus, which gives us … annotating and analyzing the genome in order to find the genetic traits responsible for  P. trifoliata ’s hardiness, …

… New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the … more than 8,500 publicly available metagenome datasets generated from sampling sites around the world, including …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit … conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and archaea. Many of the samples shared a …

… (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … carbon captured from the atmosphere in a process that generates energy. The MPI team ultimately aims to develop an … composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  Science , a team led by Tobias Erb, director of the MPI …

… Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the … resource that provides information at multiple scales from genes to the community level. The Impact Rivers are …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In … One other finding that interested the authors was that an evolutionary analysis of  Bifidobacterium strains in honey …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … was published online June 8, 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those …

… 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 … project is to determine how mutations in plant transporter genes affect microbiome composition and plant growth. Under …

… closely with staff to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Dr. Fagnan was appointed CIO of the JGI in 2016, and in 2018 was hired to be the JGI’s … Methodologies workshops. In 2018, Dr. Fagnan was part of the Gordon Bell prizewinning team at the Supercomputing …