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… to view downloadable pdfs of previous Progress Reports from the Joint Genome Institute.  …

… first paper that describes sorghum’s response to drought, from a large-scale field experiment to uncover the … the crop and its microbiome. For three consecutive years (2016-2018), researchers conducted large-scale experiments in … a control condition, with water being applied weekly throughout the duration of the experiment, equal to the amount of …

… habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained insights on … to thrive in manmade environments. As reported January 5, 2018 in The ISME Journal , a team led by University of Oslo … the other brown rot fungi. Additionally, S. himantioides outcompeted all the brown rots it was paired with, …

… While summer interns at the JGI from multiple programs had their own goals to achieve, they …

… cycling across the planet. Summary To understand more about how archaeal hosts and hitchhikers coexist, researchers … Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  … CRISPR-Cas systems to recognize and remove invaders’ DNA from their own genomes. One of these systems, the …

… soil carbon. The process to harvest energy-generating peat from these boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual … Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, then tested for heat and pH stress by …

… matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high … can also act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the … prevent methane production by routing the carbon away from methanogens. In The ISME Journal, a team led by …

… an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest … class  Dothideomycetes includes fungi that obtain nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant … feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could …

… it is the largest repository of BGC sequence data from over 1.3 million publicly available bacterial and … gene clusters and secondary metabolites information from isolate and metagenome data.   The SMC ( … Dan Udwary talks about the Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory  …

… Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and …

… work, but the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from fellow researchers onsite as well. …

… of genetic diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a … carbon cycling .  The team was led by researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with additional support from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. After PNNL …