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… for the summer term (May through August) and selected projects will receive stipend and travel expenses, both for …

… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … i.e. in January. She talked about her  Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to drought. …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … took place a million years apart: the individual with a maternal  B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million …

Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …

… the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. The … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … proposal akin to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, which is aimed at determining the activity, …

… little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and thrive — some varieties grow … strengths into other plants. A brief timeline of sorghum projects at the JGI: 2009: JGI and collaborators use … genome and releases it to the community. 2014: GENCODE project begins. To support growing sorghum and other C4 …

In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And …