Aspergillus is not only one of the most important fungi for use in biotechnology it is also one of the most commonly found groups of fungi worldwide. This project seeks to sequence and annotate a series of additional Aspergillus species and Penicillium roqueforti to complement and strengthen the genomic data currently available for comparative studies…. [Read More]

The single largest project to date, with an anticipated five-gigabase genome, barley ranks fifth in the world among all crops cultivated, and is grown on four million acres in the United States alone. The crop can be used to produce ethanol from the grain or for cellulosic ethanol from the straw. The team intends to… [Read More]

Five different protists representing different algal classes isolated from the Arctic Ocean are being investigated for adaptation to perennial cold conditions and for identification of genes linked to mixotrophy—how certain microorganisms can assimilate organic compounds as carbon sources and to characterize the horizontal gene transfer events over evolutionary time of donor algal genes to the… [Read More]

Strains of green algae from isolated acidic waters are being sequenced to understand how they adapt to variable levels of carbon dioxide, as well as to get a better sense of their role in the carbon cycle, and specifically how they can fix carbon under these conditions under these conditions. Principal Investigators: Cheryl Kerfeld, DOE… [Read More]