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… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … on the plant, a team of scientists studied what happens to the tree’s physical traits and gene expression when … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm … Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes from other … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …

… genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new … mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. … as well as atmospheric carbon dioxide.  Summary Researchers sequenced 11 samples from Asia–Australasia and 13 samples …

… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … ,” Gonzalez-Rizzo explained. “This kind of discovery opens new questions about bacterial morphotypes that have … the bacterial cells on the molecular level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab …

… a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils … burn severities look like a year after a fire. It also opens questions about what the soil microbiome looks like over …

… On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted … to the end of a nine-week virtual internship. The celebration was preceded by short final presentations attended by … or in some cases daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote …

… Committee (UEC) – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here to view the full roster of members. Each of the researchers had their own reasons for wishing to serve on the UEC. For microbial ecologist …

… DNA for genome sequencing was no easy task. The traditional way of collecting them is through a method called … Amplification to generate enough DNA to put on a sequencer. As previously mentioned, it’s a method that’s … assembly. So while researchers are confident all the DNA sequences came from one cell, including components like …

… JGI researchers nearly tripled the available fungal mitochondrial genome data, unlocking new potential for AI-driven … time. They also discovered more than 6,000 mitochondrial sequences previously unrecognized within existing public … learning models that predict biological traits from DNA sequences. The study also confirmed that mitochondrial and …

… In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is … clearly identifies the four subgenomes based on non-genic sequences.”  In his words, the history of the strawberry is …

… Learn more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative analysis …

… 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 …