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… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix … (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next … understand how sex determination works in shrub willow, researchers investigated the structures of the sex …

… bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) led a team that  identified a protein … within poplar involved in plant growth, lignin production, and disease resistance.  The Impact With increased … in the engineered plants while a Molecular Foundry researcher provided insights into how the regulatory …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … plant growth hormones. One other tidbit that caught the researchers’ attention is that the poplar cuttings had … sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the United States Department of Energy (DOE) …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. … gut. To better understand the dynamics of this molecule, researchers developed the first chemiluminescent biosensors … a wider range of environments. This new technology enables researchers to directly measure cyclic di-GMP levels in …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … roughly 5-7,000 years ago and has been well-studied by many researchers for nearly five decades. In these frigid … collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science … ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify variations of essential genes in … chair at the University of Texas, Austin, and included researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major … crosses. The work wraps more than a decade of working with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … what biochemical processes? Now, an international team of researchers has identified the major metabolic roles of … shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found that pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are …

… In   April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25.  On March 17, 2020, a shelter-in-place order … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …

… Biosciences Area Entrepreneurship Program presents… Eyes on the Prize – Launching & Sustaining Startups in Synthetic … 29th, 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm: Panel discussion, Q&A followed by: 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm: Hosted Hoppy Hour @ … Creek Featuring a casual, candid, C-level panel discussion with local industry leaders: Arvind Gupta , Managing …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … Methane-producing archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total … in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Stanford University, the Chan Zuckerberg …

… The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint … 1. Q(uestion): How much DNA is required for the JGI SIP metagenomics pipeline? A(nswer):  The more the better. We want … possibly be incorporated with some of KBase’s metabolic modeling narratives A:  KBase doesn’t currently have …