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Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

As set out in the JGI Five-Year Strategic Plan – “Beyond Basepairs, A Vision for Integrative and  Collaborative Genome Science” – through … to further develop a more diverse and inclusive pool of talent for career opportunities at JGI and Berkeley Lab. …

Applications and Analysis for the Future (SFA²F) meeting brings together established and emerging scientists from … industry, and government organizations for three days of scientific presentation, interactive panel discussions, …

This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, …

Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … into multiple interconnected layers. The architecture of these algorithms, inspired by communication networks …

Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in …

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Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have … place: hot spring-dwelling bacteria from the phylum C hloroflexota . Research shows that flagella were lost in other …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved through the annual …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … willow is flipped: females are heterogametic. To avoid confusion with the mammalian system, the sex chromosomes are …