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… decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum varieties, a resource for breeders and researchers to harness the traits that let … and more — however, a single reference genome shows only one slice of the adaptation possible for this plant. In …

… works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement … included over 2000 RNA Seq libraries. As I previously mentioned, this is an updateable resource. To demonstrate that, … of genes across the investigated plants. We did so by analyzing this huge sample set specifically using results …

… world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  … accounts for 80% of sugar production worldwide, but has one of the most complex genetic blueprints. Assembling a …

… and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … Communications takes on the challenge of understanding one of these proteins — and its role in photosynthesis — in … a similar region —  a domain of unknown function, DUF2470. In the world of proteins, a domain of unknown function …

… rhizobacterium (PGPR) Pseudomonas simiae WCS417. One suggested function of these phage genes is the … experimental characterization methods, in addition to bioinformatics tools to elucidate phage function in this … 10.1038/s41579-020-0381-4 10.1038/s41396-020-0637-z …

… Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National … The collaboration has resulted in several papers, including one in 2018 on the discovery of miniature CRISPR-associated … is a pioneer in metagenomic studies, recovering microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine in Iron …

… For the last 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for … retired Naval Commander retires from Berkeley Lab. On June 24, in what was billed as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …

… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact … in  Metabolic Engineering , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a …