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… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more …

… Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … the first time CRISPR-Cas9 had been used to modify a cell’s genome in order to create lysates with altered metabolic … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… in fungi. The Science Changing an A, C, T or G in a genome sequence can lead to changes in protein structures … 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not well understood in fungi. A team of … or transposons that can move to another location in the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that …

… climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in common … In 2009, the JGI sequenced and analyzed the first reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, … 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have cited that genome. Since publishing that original reference genome, the …

… moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each … effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of the flora, fire moss has …

… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . The Science Most species are diploids and have two … of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn … For the portion of the work conducted by the Joint Genome Institute and the Joint BioEnergy Institute, support …