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… to technical limitations and the sheer complexity of plant genomes. Now, with improvements to DNA Affinity Purification … paper and Technical Implementation Lead at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … happening in terms of where those binding sites are in the genome — those sequences are moving around, disappearing and …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more …

… recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The microbes …

… in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes in protein structures … 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not well understood in fungi. A team of … or transposons that can move to another location in the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that …

… 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 convert … 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 … of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn … For the portion of the work conducted by the Joint Genome Institute and the Joint BioEnergy Institute, support …