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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 capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Within days …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of … recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, including the U.S. Department of …

… Metabolism   Although there are still a large number of secondary metabolites yet to be discovered and their … regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in native hosts, the complexity of cloning and expressing a given BGC … genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from available genome sequences. The DOE Joint Genome …

… chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the … a template — integrative analysis of multiple omics data from various environments — that JGI users can leverage to …

…   The Science Scientists have fully decoded the genome of an oil-producing green alga, and demonstrated precise … gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two species, similar to a mule, but that is still able to …

… and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical …

… mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant … is Dr. Yi Zhai, and I’m currently working on the effect of plant root exudates in the rhizosphere and microbiome. … here has also been so very nice and willing to lend a helping hand at any opportunity that they have. Any …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Sorghum …

… 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 … on microalgal communities across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome …

… . 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 … platform (http://southgreen.cirad.fr). For the portion of the work conducted by the Joint Genome Institute and the …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is a striking division … Foundation (18- 25706S and 20-02022Y), by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic …