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… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science … model species like P. hallii , researchers can develop crop improvement techniques that could be applied to … global population, drought is an obstacle toward improving crop yields for food and fuel use. In Nature Communications …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and characterizing the planet’s …

… Malmstrom is a Staff Scientist and leader of the Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made … genomics pipeline that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the … of samples that would not be possible with traditional approaches. …

… Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds … also interact with compounds like fertilizers and microplastics that might be added to the water along the way, … over 1,000 metagenomes and established standardized sequencing protocols so that researchers could compare …

… Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an … (FACS) to sort cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was … processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment and focuses on …

… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane … sugarcane was published as a step forward in this effort. Sequencing and assembling the genome required a custom …