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… climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in common with certain other cereal crops: It performs C4 photosynthesis, which is the fastest way for plants to … In 2009, the JGI sequenced and analyzed the first reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, …

… moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each … a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances in … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute was supported by the Office of Science of …

… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . The Science Most species are diploids and have two … can be further purified to produce alternative biofuels. A C4 plant like sorghum and maize, sugarcane can grow on … For the portion of the work conducted by the Joint Genome Institute and the Joint BioEnergy Institute, support …

… Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … than were noted inside the cell. “One of the huge advantages of the cell-free system is that the cells are no … first time CRISPR-Cas9 had been used to modify a cell’s  genome in order to create lysates with altered metabolic …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant … through computational approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  Integrated Microbial Genomes & … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of … that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest class of fungi, by … to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.  The …

… crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model … high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. The reference genome built off more than a decade of … on two types of naturally occurring switchgrass, those with 4 copies of the genome (4X) and those with eight copies …

… decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a … traits that let this biomass powerhouse thrive. Within its genome, Sorghum bicolor holds keys to drought and flood … and bioenergy production. Together with resequencing of 1,984 cultivars and landraces, these data capture the diversity …

… 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint … known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic ways. In “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single species. By …