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What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing … But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… help solve energy and environmental challenges.   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass … a chemical and biological engineer at the University of California Santa Barbara. So plants don’t break down without a … standards.  A year later, her team used proteomics, genomics and transcriptomics to discover another advantage …

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 …

Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha … For the past 13 years, Mr. Schmutz has directed the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community … gene atlas: an updateable transcriptome resource to improve functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom. …