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… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science … model to study drought tolerance in perennial grasses using Panicum hallii (Hall’s panicgrass), by generating two … fuels for cars and jets. By studying a close relative model species like P. hallii , researchers can develop crop …

… more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … public repository of BGC sequences that come pre-annotated using multiple commonly used sequence analysis tools is a … a secondary metabolites portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, … in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are still extant (whereas … “It offers us the possibility to explore genomically the whole complex of progenitors and descendant species and, …

… analyses, such as metabolic modeling, that go well beyond genome annotation and analysis. The JGI and KBase seek to … data on scales ranging from single genes and individual genomes to metagenomes to systems-level modeling and understanding. JGI and …

… Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth Director in its … biology. Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and … to build and position JGI as a leading integrative genome science user facility.  In addition to serving as JGI …

… Summary Eelgrass is unique in that there are not many species able to occupy the regions where eelgrass … form of another species, so the scientists had to use the genome itself.   Approximately 67 million years ago, the ancestor to eelgrass underwent a whole genome duplication event, doubling all of its …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the … genomes, particularly from incredibly complex soil microbial communities, is crucial to understanding how these … and soil from the Angelo Coast Range Reserve in California. Using DAS Tool on data from soil samples, researchers were …

… in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from … role that fungi can’t fulfill by fixing nitrogen and using it as an energy source. No fungi are known to be able …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … to be required for growth. By contrast, an initial screen using an unvetted library (with both active and inactive …

… will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow In 2010, a draft first genome of  Theobroma cacao  – the tree that produces cacao … released by a Mars, Inc.-led consortium through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  …

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