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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … 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 …
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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 …
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… 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, …
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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 …
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… equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to facilitate … in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome Project, he began developing larger comparative genomic … research efforts expanded to include basal metazoans and plants. Working with a talented team of scientists and …
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DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations … gene functions that may be relevant to both algae and land plants. Within the biogeochemistry group, one of the four …
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Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … out that, without the JGI, the discoveries made in this project wouldn’t have been possible. Scientists hadn’t known … the sequence of a “marker gene,” namely the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene, to mark or identify microbial species. All …
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