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… led by Hao Tan from the Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and involving Francis Martin from the … is triggered when nutrients are acquired from an external source. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes … by the black morel, as well as the gene-expression programs encoding the biochemical processes unveiled by …
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… insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for … allows Miscanthus to both inform and benefit from breeding programs of related candidate bioenergy feedstock crops such … to novel traits. M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets …
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… it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays ) produces a plethora of … in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that … buck. The research team reports that transferring just four genes encoding these enzymes to another plant, such as …
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… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by … cultivar R570 has been generated and reported in the journal Nature . The work led by researchers at Australia’s … the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the Arizona Genomics Institute. The work was partly enabled by the JGI’s …
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Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, …
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… when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break … dataset was particularly important for characterizing fungal genes, because, unlike bacteria, they often carry …
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