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    Understanding Lentinula genomes and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for biofuel production. Additionally, these fungi play a role in the global carbon cycle.

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    Through a collaborative effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health.

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    Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory protein. RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes.

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    Along with highlighting the viruses in a given sample, metagenomics shed light on another key aspect of viruses in the environment — their sheer genetic diversity.

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    As part of a long-term collaboration with the JGI Algal Program, researchers studying function and activity of phytoplankton genes in polar waters have found that these algae rely on dissolved zinc to photosynthesize.

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September 4, 2009

T. reesei research on Checkbiotech

The current study complements last year’s publication of the T. reesei genome, which was sequenced at the DOE JGI. The authors looked at the sequence of the reference strain named for the Army quartermasters, QM6a, noted Baker. “Now we’re looking at strains such as RUT C30, which is a parent strain for many cellulase producing… [Read More]

September 4, 2009

T. reesei research on e Science News

During World War II, T. reesei frustrated American Army quartermasters in the South Pacific by speeding up the rate at which canvas supplies wore out. Now the same fungus is a key producer of industrial enzymes that are used, among other applications, to break down biomass for biofuel production. Part of the makeover can be… [Read More]

September 4, 2009

T. reesei research on Brightsurf

In half a century, one fungus has gone from being the bane of the Army quartermasters’ existence in the Pacific to industry staple and someday, as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission to promote national energy security through clean, renewable energy development, a biofuel producers’ best friend. Trichoderma reesei’s makeover is due in… [Read More]

August 21, 2009

Looking beyond biotech companies for microbe-based biofuels

If you’re feeling ill trying to keep up with all the strange biofuel news these days, you might want to have some lab tests run. You could have a form of E. coli poisoning, a cyanobacteria outbreak, or maybe you accidentally ingested some highly toxic fire moss or perhaps bumped into a desert locust –… [Read More]

July 14, 2009

DOE JGI’s Phil Hugenholtz at “Microbes at UQ” Symposium

Keynote speaker Dr Phil Hugenholtz will be describing recent advances in the metagenomic analysis of the microbial communities within the termite hind-gut, following on from work published in Nature in 2007. The stomachs of termites actually harbor a gold mine of microbes that have now been tapped as a rich source of enzymes for improving… [Read More]

July 7, 2009

UW-M/JGI ant collaboration on Cleantech.com

Scientists from the University of Wisconsin, the Joint Genome Institute and Emory University have been tracking the symbiotic relationship between the three groups of organisms in the rainforest. Together, the three can consume 880 pounds of dry leaves a year, maximizing the energy harnessed from the leaves through a bioreactor process refined over 50 million… [Read More]

July 6, 2009

NZ’s Federated Farmers comments on AgResearch/JGI project

“Ultimately this is about taking the gas out of the gas,” said Don Nicolson, Federated Farmers President. “By identifying what organisms and enzymes are involved in an animal’s digestive process, there’s real potential to see less waste but more productivity from farm animals. “AgResearch deserves major credit for working with JGI to undertake this research… [Read More]

July 6, 2009

JGI/UW-M leaf cutter ant project on Discovery News

The genomes of 17 different ants, fungi and bacteria that eat through hundreds of pounds of leaf matter a year could ultimately lead to new techniques for making biofuels. Scientists from the University of Wisconsin, the Joint Genome Institute and Emory University are sequencing the first-ever community genome, searching for clues to how what’s essentially… [Read More]

July 1, 2009

JGI collaboration on pine beetle research in Biomass magazine

Genomics and proteomics research organizations Genome Canada, Genome British Columbia and Genome Alberta will help fund a $7.8 million research project designed to create tools for the prediction and guarantee of sustainable biomass feedstocks for Canadian biofuel production. The University of Alberta and the U.S. DOE’s Joint Genome Institute will also co-fund the project. The… [Read More]

June 5, 2009

“Craig Venter Has Algae Biofuel in Synthetic Genomics’ Pipeline”

In his Joint Genome Institute keynote speech in March, Venter said “the new algae” is something that “secretes whatever lipid size we want to engineer. This changes algae from what everybody’s been looking at as a farming problem into a manufacturing problem. So we are trying to get algae to go into a continuous production… [Read More]
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