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… episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC … plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – …

American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias … how JGI data supports higher education in this JGIota , a Genome Insider podcast minisode.)  “The ultimate target has …

… about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Natural products, secondary metabolites, and specialized metabolites all refer to … the chemicals that make species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to medicine, the …