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Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth … C4 pathway, which particularly helps plants thrive in warm, arid environments. Corn and sugarcane are among the major … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a …

Developed in 2017, the PDT was established in part to help better-connect industry to JGI resources, as well as target academic, …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, … the world. Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team …

Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has … is particularly interested in understanding how, when and why microbes decide to produce which metabolites. … BS, …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI … beyond the tried-and-true method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of …