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… (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) Project through a 2012 Community Science … State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes for all fungi … Stajich from UC Riverside would focus on broad sampling of early diverging fungi, and Francis Martin of the French …
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… and led annotation and analysis of diverse eukaryotic genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the … Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he launched … sequencing of mycorrhizal fungi provides insights into the early evolution of symbiotic traits. Nature Commun . …
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… terrestrial carbon is stored in peatlands, which make up nearly 3 percent of the earth’s land surface. In the New … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different … Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Early Career Research Program. Oak Ridge National Laboratory …
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… information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable bioeconomy. Researchers and farmers could improve future sugarcane varieties so that they can adapt to future environmental …
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… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to fungal genomes. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … — of soil RNA for this project, and produced the reference genomes that allowed for mapping these RNA reads. …
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And it actually was jumping onto the I ntegrated Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes, the IMG platform that JGI has that really got me … biosynthetic gene clusters in your organism that you love dearly and can genetically manipulate. And yeah. And so …
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… interactions in microbial systems. Through a 2021 DOE Early Career Research Program, Dr. Roux established and … the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes. Nature biotechnology 39, 578-585. Roux et al., … through global metagenomics. Nature 578, 432–436. … DOE BER Early Career Research Program, 2021 Thomson Reuters Highly …
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Understanding the evolution of polyploidy, and how genomes respond to extra chromosome and gene copies, will … Miscanthus breeding programs. The team also sequenced genomes of numerous wild Miscanthus lineages to better … are following up on these discoveries to develop new varieties of Miscanthus as a source of renewable bioenergy. …
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