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… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … clusters. He dubbed these organelles “pepins,” after the small seeds in fruits. DNA clusters were plentiful in the … three times more genes than most bacteria and hundreds of thousands of genome copies (polyploidy) that are spread …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called …

… plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many genes after such events, returning their genomes to a … a JGI Flagship Plant. All three  Brachypodium  grasses have small genomes, short life cycles and can be easily …

… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that … viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …