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… crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients … 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab. In addition to …

… well as the evolution of seed plants, the fern’s distant cousin. Ceratopteris richardii, or C-fern, specifically has … undeniable power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… fall for my master’s in plant soil science and my career focus is plant breeding. Ti’Yanna Watson: My mentor is Dr. Yi … in molecular biology and plant functional genomics, because this work is essential for improving crop resilience … at any opportunity that they have. Any questions that I may have, everyone has been able to jump to and assist me in …

… from plants, microorganisms, and environmental samples using targeted and untargeted approaches. The webinar … would depend on the sample. However, we don’t do this because they typically contain salts and other contaminants that interfere with metabolomics analysis.  Q: Can you give us an idea about the scale of an average study? How many …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a …

The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin and transform the remaining … perhaps the accepted narrative wasn’t quite accurate, and maybe anaerobic fungi living in soils or the guts of …

… and researchers predict how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two … his words, the history of the strawberry is complicated because, “when you have comparisons to other closely related …

… an array of experiments at universities and national user facilities, researchers found that this protein detects … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … University of California at Berkeley, as well as other DOE user facilities — Brookhaven National Laboratory’s National …

… of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the … why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may be that polysaccharide-degrading enzymes are secreted. …

… workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … similarities in proteins that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid …

… in the IGB. Vision  Lead genomic innovation for a sustainable bioeconomy. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, we provide advanced genomic capabilities, … realize our new vision to, “ Lead genomic innovation for a sustainable bioeconomy ” — as articulated in our new …