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… new ecological habitat. The Science By comparing genetic information from similar organisms, researchers have gained … rot Serpula lacrymans towards breaking down plant mass for conversion to sustainable, alternative biofuels and … is typically found in spruce and other conifers in boreal forests. As these trees were harvested for constructing …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … the National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s … that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other …

… also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … arise when different ancestral species crossbreed before genome doubling. In allopolyploids, the set of … a subgenome. Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to …

… in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … by Jeremy Schmutz of the JGI and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; Phil McClean of North Dakota State … Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those with severely limited income,” McClean said. …

… surface of plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on … both local conditions and the movement of microbes through forest canopies.  The Impact This work, enabled in part by … the capacity to metabolize the same chemicals conifers use for defending themselves, which has important implications …

… Australia but is increasingly farmed in other countries for essential oil production. The recent assembly of two … the conservation and evolution of the genes responsible for terpene synthase (TPS) enzyme production. This family of … DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing several eucalypt genomes to establish the …

… the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and University of California (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the … the Lab. “This project represents part of our long term efforts to contribute towards a diverse workforce and scientific community (working with the JGI) as …

… 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria and its contemporaries. Margulisbacteria …

… on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order for all residents took effect in six San Francisco Bay Area … statewide. In this brief captioned video, JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan reflects on the personal … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah … Community Structure and Methane Production in California’s Canal System,” focuses on anthropogenic impacts on … on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. Inspired by Randall …

… the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals . The proposal call is open year-round, but … approved JGI proposal came through the Functional Genomics (formerly DNA Synthesis) call, and he noted the data had …

… other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function … at the University of East Anglia, leads this effort to understand what makes polar photosynthesizers tick. … phytoplankton evolve to colder temperatures characteristic for polar oceans. In this study, they’ve cracked open the …