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… 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 …

… anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make use of it, it would change the … is well-established: Across all life forms and with little exception, organisms have figured out how to … cultivated anaerobic fungi (Neocallimastix californiae) on sorghum, switchgrass and poplar, then monitored changes to …

… 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 …

Most of those researchers send their samples in from afar, without ever hearing much about the sequencing lab. So … through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with names — but not doors — and robots handle a bunch of …

… together over 400 proposal collaborators and co-authors with affiliations at over 180 organizations in 29 U.S. … 85 proposal collaborators, 58 had never shared a proposal with each other prior to their involvement with the 1KFG project. Over 1,000 species have been …

… 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 …

… drug discovery train moving, drug companies started working with some techniques referred to as “combinatorial … as there were natural product hits. Sort of in parallel with that, the field of molecular biology got more … And we have many, many 10s – or probably at this point millions of biosynthetic gene clusters. ALISON: Oh my gosh, …

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

Photobiont and fungus (mycobiont) live intertwined, with the photobiont transferring part of its … anticipated that in this symbiosis going back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps via horizontal gene … seconds or minutes — a trait that could help improve crop drought resilience. It’s a superpower even Marvel’s …

Science Program , allows us to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers whose work aligns with DOE missions .  Below find a list of researchers whose …