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… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks … Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and …

… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a  project detailed in  ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …

… the field, work at the lab bench, and also do some computational analyses at their desks. As part of the DOE JGI’s … summer were: Rida Ali, who worked with T.B.K. Reddy on the Genomes OnLine Database; Sarah Fruchart , who worked with … worked with Zhong Wang’s group on an aspect of the same project assigned to Sharon and Cristhian; and, Lizhen Shi , …

… report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) associated … possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by … to accurately edit genomes (that is, repair gene mutations, and either delete or add genes in a precise fashion) …