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… explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program.    While soybean has desirable properties as … global source of both protein and oil was also the largest plant project completed by the JGI. It has since been cited … biofuel, the JGI has also helped researchers understand a fungus that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be 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 hurdle: ginormous sex …

… (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … pulling over to the side of the road to collect small weedy plants and bring them back to the lab. The weedy grass was … of plants have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And …

… applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … also known as “polyploidy,” is common among flowering plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after …