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… the cotton fields look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is …

… fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii … power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG. For a long time, C-fern …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for … mycorrhizal symbionts shuttle water and nutrients to trees; plant pathogens colonize living plants to feed on them.  Across …

… to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is the head … could then use these proteins to recognize individual pathogens and pull them out, like fish on a fishing line, …