Sorghum variety BTx642 grown in Central Valley at temperatures around 100 degrees for 65 days without water. It is still green and filling grain to almost the same extent as plants that were watered weekly. (Jeffrey Dahlberg, UC ANR Agricultural Research and Extension Center)

December 2, 2019

Dealing with Drought: Uncovering Sorghum’s Secrets

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields… [Read More]

The lichen Gray’s Cup (Cladonia grayi), with its namesake goblet structures. (Thomas Barlow)

November 20, 2019

Making a Lichen Together

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga… [Read More]

Poplar cuttings inoculated with M. elongata strain PM193 (far right) grow larger in 30 percent forest soil / 70 percent sand than without PM193 (middle). On the left are controls grown in sterile sand. (Chih-Ming Hsu)

August 20, 2019

Fungus Fuels Tree Growth

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel… [Read More]

Rapid technological advances in genomics have transformed modern biology. From its inception, the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has been at the forefront of large-scale sequence-based science.

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