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… 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 … challenges. While a hill of beans may not seem to amount to much, the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is actually a …

… in its environment, this alga reveals a remarkable ability to adapt to stress and rapid environmental changes. … quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with younger, thinner ice means more fresh water — and less salt — near the surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s stress resistance and …

… provides the scientific community at large with access to high-throughput sequencing, synthesis, and metabolomics … of our CSP: The Large Scale call is for expansive projects that leverage a range of JGI capabilities, and also requires … Genomics calls do not require an LOI.  Projects will be chosen based on scientific merit, judged through …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. … the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of … use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be converted into biofuels and bioproducts — would further …

JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect … for the absence of all the other letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first … new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much more comprehensive understanding of how a fundamental …

… varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a …

… complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which … anaerobic fungi can’t harness it, scientists long held that these fungi don’t have the energy to make complex …

… virologist and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in …

… abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a … two species in the pan-genome . Typically, pan-genomes are much larger than any individual genome highlighting the fact …

Trubl, a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he first needs their DNA.   …

… ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep … researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  … These archaea fix carbon and nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This …