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Brachypodium distachyon, the model species for temperate cereals and biofuel crop grasses with a growing pangenome of one hundred genomes. Spain: Huesca, Ibieca, San Miguel de Foces. (Photography credits: Pilar Catalán)

August 25, 2020

The More the Merrier: Making the Case for Plant Pan-genomes

Crop breeders have harnessed polyploidy to increase fruit and flower size, and confer stress tolerance traits. Researchers relied on a model grass system and pan-genomes to learn the origins, evolution and development of plant polyploids. [Read More]

April 20, 2020

Picking Up Threads of Cotton Genomics

In Nature Genetics, a multi-institutional team has sequenced and assembled the genomes of the major cotton lineages. [Read More]

Art illustration capturing giant virus genomic diversity. (Zosia Rostomian/Berkeley Lab)

January 22, 2020

Here, There and Everywhere: Large and Giant Viruses Abound Globally

JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes… [Read More]

Students in the 2018 Boca Raton Community High School A-Level Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) Biology class collected samples from the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge for the pilot project between the class and the JGI. (Image courtesy of Jon Benskin)

January 21, 2020

Inspiring STEM Careers Through a Hands-on Everglades Microbiome Study

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades… [Read More]