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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow In 2010, a draft first genome of  Theobroma cacao  – the tree that produces cacao … released by a Mars, Inc.-led consortium through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … the world, expanding the known diversity of bacteria and archaea by 44%, is now available and  described November 9, …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … trace its origins, the researchers engaged the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), with support of the US Department of … was released to the public in a highly-cited 2006 publication in the journal Science . This provided a …

… fantastic diversity of cell types and associated organisms, including fungal and bacterial symbionts, detrimental microbial … viruses that all contribute to a dynamic ecosystem. We are interested in how plants self-organize, influence, and are … Plant microbiomes hold the amazing ability to influence plant development, fitness and …

… diversity hotspots Over the past few decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research … “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've …

… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably never … leaves, a team of researchers sequenced  P. trifoliata ’s genome. Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) …