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In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha … data from two ecotypes of  Panicum hallii and multiple switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) experimental data. Sarah:  …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working … mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass. Nature 590: 438-444. Mamidi, S et al. 2020. A …

Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, … assign functional “read out” to sequence data. Moving from cataloging microbial diversity to experimental …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their derivatives during her Ph.D. in Microbiology at the Eberhard Karls … Reviews Genetics, ISME J, Nucleic Acids Research, DOE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants, UAEU …

Kaushal Sharma, one of five Antioch High School rising juniors who participated in internships at the DOE Joint Genome Institute this summer … biosamples in GOLD. “Besides these, he curated several small sets of phylogeny, biosample metadata tasks we …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … be the problem. Whereas the bacteria, of course, are much smaller. But I think a lot of groups are sequencing fungi. … number of chromosomes. Like, ironically, yeast, which has a small genome has 15 chromosomes. Where Aspergillus has eight …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny … These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot …

… of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant … anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastix californiae) on sorghum, switchgrass and poplar, then monitored changes to the …

Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … across different species, each organism has a relatively small set of around 20 ATs. These ATs have maintained a small and relatively constant number across different …

A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel … symbiosis in other bioenergy grasses, like sorghum and switchgrass. We’re optimizing systems now, so that we can …