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… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. …

… Lab created a fabricated ecosystem – an EcoFAB. These small plastic growth chambers let researchers around the … compare their work consistently. And EcoFABs also work well in the classroom. This episode, we visit Los Medanos Community College to see EcoFABs in action in Jill Bouchard’s BIO 21 lab course. …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer plants. So they’ve looked into …

… Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the JGI dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed the … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… practices that support agriculture – such as efficiently using dwindling water resources and restoring and maintaining … growing worldwide population. Anuvia Plant Nutrients , a small Florida business producing bio-based plant nutrition … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… 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, …

… critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective … While an ever-increasing number of phage and virus genomes have been …

… 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:  …

… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms oil-producing alga into a powerful platform … of oil and can grow with or without light. The relatively small size of its genome also simplifies metabolic modeling … supported for his work on  Auxenochlorella genome sequencing and assembly in Berkeley, in part, through the …

… 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 …

… 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 …