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… Summer 2025 marked the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint … experience funded by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns … the plants to harvesting the plants and extracting DNA. They also analyzed 16s amplicon data to determine …

… National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … available for research over 100,000 samples and specimens of over 60 different types of NEON samples and specimens per year. This NEON-focused …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree for Lentinula. … raphanica and L boryana in the Americas. Tracing these phylogenetic relationships suggests that the shiitake …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … friends or foes. The Impact Microbial communities comprised of fungi and bacteria can thrive in plant roots. They play … from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which …

… Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute …

… as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – according to plan but unbeknownst to Ray and most of the rest of the 200-plus Zoom participants. While the … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), the latest release of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from … to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit these sites, as well as the …

… In this episode, undergraduates adopt genomes that the JGI sequenced, but never published in the literature. These … and Mark Soghomonian share what it was like to take on one of these genomes.  …