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… that a new genetic mapping strategy called RH-Seq can identify genes that promote heat resistance in the … survivors had their DNA sequenced at the JGI as part of a 2014 Community Science Program project. The results revealed … between species that have been separated for millions of years. The study highlights the genes that could be used to …

… powerful at finding ways to accelerate bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis of … Though such visits have been impossible for the past year and a half, “the logistics haven’t changed,” noted … Rasor said. “So they can push more of the carbon that we feed into a product molecule and so we’re able to make the …

… 2022 marks the JGI’s 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements … any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years evolving tactics against potential threats. “Because … team leveraged transcriptomics and other assays to identify and test carbohydrate-active enzymes. They found many …

… of the common bean. That work was published online June 8, 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a … a 473-million basepair genome of the common bean, identifying genes related to disease-resistance, flowering time, … iron content and have a longer shelf-life — up to four years. Work is now underway to transfer the trait into other …

… (UC), Merced. What started with 2 interns in the summer of 2014 has grown to a total of 75 with the inclusion of the … of all the work that went into this program was the feedback from the graduate student interns; “it changed what … Lawrence , the first graduate student intern from the 2014 cohort. After working on his post-doctoral position …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, … using both DNA and messenger RNA (mRNA) sequencing to identify those traits that have helped fungi, bacteria and viruses … that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a variety of …

… powerful at finding ways to accelerate bio-design and identifying the best sets of enzymes that enable synthesis of … Though such visits have been impossible for the past year and a half, “the logistics haven’t changed,” noted … Rasor said. “So they can push more of the carbon that we feed into a product molecule and so we’re able to make the …

… mutualists.  Nature Genet. 47(4):410-415. Grigoriev et al (2014) MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes.  … Researcher/The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, 2014-2023 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director’s …

… to trees; plant pathogens colonize living plants to feed on them.  Across the forest types, Martin and his team … suggests this redundancy is protective, a bit like diversifying an investment portfolio. If a stress like wildfire or … this way was challenging, according to Martin. “Twelve years ago, when we mapped the first sequenced RNA from the …

… trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel feedstocks of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy … distinguish males and females even when plants with multi-year generation times are young and haven’t physically …

… with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed on decaying plant matter (saprotrophs) have … allow host plants, such as candidate  bioenergy feedstock crops, to acquire nutrients. Additionally, these …

… approach for isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to … 2016. Visualizing in situ translational activity for identifying and sorting slow-growing archaeal− bacterial … populations. ISME Journal 10 (7), 1589 Kashtan, N et al. 2014. Single-cell genomics reveals hundreds of coexisting …