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… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … that was expanded in a palindrome and shown to be undergoing gene conversion in willow. This gene regulates the …
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… chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene expression as it grows back vigorously year after year (perenniality). The Impact Among the long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock crops are … Office of Biological and Environmental Research under Award Number DE-SC0018420. The work conducted by the U.S. …
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… JGI in 2000 as the founding Associate Director for Computational Genomics, and led the computational efforts directed towards the sequencing, annotation, … group, and is past lead of the Eukaryotic Genome Program (2010-2019), and JGI Chief Informatics Officer (2013-2016). …
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… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with … also received a DOE Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award in 2021, which aims in part to build off of this work. …
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… strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the bioeconomy, leveraging partnerships to advance foundational science, creating opportunities for the global research … the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national efforts to promote and stimulate a bioeconomy, where …
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… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance … with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the …
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… Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) … The JGI is represented at conferences year round; find out where our researchers will …
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… of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and model gene regulatory pathways used by the … fungus Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell … is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes …
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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate …
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