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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 …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome sequence resource of rumen microorganisms . Thanks to the … in themselves. For example, a few organisms originally sequenced in the Hungate1000 collection harbor enzymes that … rumen microbes are awesome and this is just another example why.” …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, … poplar genes associated with plant defense (e.g. jasmonic acid and salicylic acid). The team also observed that the …

… the genetic makeup of natural microbial communities using a variety of cutting-edge approaches.  Our group also … access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated … now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate and sequence microbial aggregates after first imaging with …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine in Iron Mountain, CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna noted in her …

TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …

Mr. Schmutz’s involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back … gene descriptions across the plant kingdom. Nucleic Acids Res . 51, 1–24.Lovell, JT et al. 2021. Genomic … Bennetzen, JL & Schmutz, J et al. 2012. Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria. Nature Biotechnology …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … the ground cover in peatlands. These boggy ecosystems are acidic and have very little oxygen, which is tough on the … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team …