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Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on …

What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their … and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

Six new members have been elected to the User Executive Committee (UEC) of the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute … biology tools that can help produce value-added products from these systems. He’s worked with the JGI on various CSP …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine … The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … Horonobe Underground Research Laboratory, Hokkaido, Japan. From samples of both environments, they used fluorescence  …

Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community …

What grass is a prized ornamental and a bioenergy plant? Meet Miscanthus , … Miscanthus will need some upgrades. In this episode, hear from scientists working on understanding Miscanthus biology …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, …

Right now, our natural rubber comes from just one tree species: Hevea brasiliensis . It’s great at producing latex that becomes …

Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been … next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution …

Learn more about PhycoCosm, the largest interactive collection of sequenced algal genomes, omics data and comparative …

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 …

Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating … in an unexpected place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that …