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… (BNL) led a team that  identified a protein , PtrbHLH011, within poplar involved in plant growth, lignin production, and disease resistance.  The Impact With increased lignin and iron, engineered poplar can be … to environmental stresses such as nutrient-poor land, drought and disease.  Summary In the 1970s, the DOE  …

… grass that can grow year-over-year on marginal soil and with few resources. Despite the low maintenance, it can … switchgrass genes related to biomass production, drought tolerance, and other traits that make it a viable … allowed the research team to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. Switchgrass has a large polyploid …

… genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI … Plants that the zealexin pathway has an “hourglass” shape with diverse precursors in, and many different products out, … data from these lines to identify genes associated with zealexin synthesis. The researchers used proteomics to …

… the next few months, you’re going to hear my last interview with my co-host Alison Takemura, who’s moved on from JGI to … my new co-host, who I’m really excited to be working with, and I think you all will be too. But, today, I got the chance to work with my JGI colleague Menaka Wilhelm, who is the host of …

… Free-Living Growth and during Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis with  Medicago spp. Msystems 7 (1), e01092-21 3. Baumgart et …

… of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah Tringe , JGI’s User Programs deputy and head … composition and metabolism, work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water …

… Photobiont and fungus (mycobiont) live intertwined, with the photobiont transferring part of its … . To explore the genomes, Armaleo and colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the … seconds or minutes — a trait that could help improve crop drought resilience. It’s a superpower even Marvel’s …

… . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those with severely limited income,” McClean said. “Common bean is … America and Eastern Africa. For smallholder farmers — those with less than two hectares of land — common bean is often a … fueled further research into disease tolerance in crops, drought- and stress-resistance as well as nitrogen fixation; …

… T., & Bowen, B. (2015). Analysis of metabolomics datasets with high-performance computing and metabolite atlases. … Diabetes, 59(1), 33–42. Bowen, B., & Northen, T. (2010). Dealing with the unknown: metabolomics and metabolite atlases. …

… to energy independence in the U.S. Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, in crop … doesn’t yield enough gallons of fuel per acre to compete with gasoline. Yet.  In 2010, soybean became the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. At the …

… Seshadri. Writing the  Nature   Reviews column all started with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  … Du Toit, senior editor for  Nature Reviews Microbiology, with an unusual opportunity: would JGI researchers consider … the column had been written solely by scientists affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK — a nonprofit …

… of California (UC), Berkeley, which is also affiliated with the Innovative Genomics Institute. The Impact The … areas. In particular, gene editing is being used to develop drought, flooding, pest-resistant, and better-yielding … study senior author Jennifer Doudna’s lab, and he worked with co-first author David Burstein, then a postdoctoral …