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… UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… is also reflected in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which …

… Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to … of France’s Institut de Biologie. His team proposed to sequence  Chaetoceros microalgae, or diatoms. Through the … provide more information on these ecologically relevant species. Another focus area was inter-organismal …

… “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single species. By contrast, “allopolyploids” arise when different … and the  oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is … ancestors are available. Our method clearly identifies the four subgenomes based on non-genic sequences.”  In his …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of the terpene synthase gene … revealed the largest number of TPS genes of any currently sequenced plant, a number closely followed by E. globulus . … list of putative genes from C. citriodora to known TPS gene sequences from Eucalyptus species and other plants. The …

… of defense mechanisms. The Impact There are over 10,400 species of ferns alive today. Boasting adaptations in order … power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG. For a long time, C-fern …

… a foundation for still larger efforts in diverse plant species beyond models,” he said. Cole annotated cell types … for this purpose is “particularly applicable for non-model species for which fewer ‘marker’ genes are known that are … single-cell methods were officially called out as one of four program development areas for one of the Area …

… sustainable biofuel production. The JGI published a partial sequence of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in 2003; then in 2007 the full genome was sequenced and published in the journal Science . At the … shows that those sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific …

… yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , allowing this species to grow better than its closest relative S. … then used a series of random insertions of a foreign DNA sequence to generate a huge pool of mutants, each containing … died and others grew well; the survivors had their DNA sequenced at the JGI as part of a 2014 Community Science …