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… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person meetings were still a thing, i.e. in January. She …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health and environmental … processes. The Science In a recent Microbiome paper , scientists focused on the conifer needle microbiome. … in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …