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… Program head Jeremy Schmutz and KBase Co-PI Bob Cottingham host a workshop on DOE Biological and Environmental … present on their work. BER Plant Genomic Science Workshop Agenda: 6:20 PM Overview and Joint Genome Institute Plant … Genome of Miscanthus 7:45 PM Transcriptome Changes during Leaf Senescence in Populus 8:03 PM Natural Diversity in …
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… In 2024, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and Alabama A&M University piloted an internship program to … mentors Yi Zhai and John Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They also took part …
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… of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, … relationships, and how the mutualistic associations allow host plants, such as candidate bioenergy feedstock crops, … (form symbiotic relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 …
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… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to … exit through the cell membrane without lysing the bacterial host. They can also influence their host’s growth and …
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… Biotechnology . Known as the GEM (Genomes from Earth’s Microbiomes) catalog, this work results from a collaboration … and the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the … including natural and agricultural soils, human- and animal-host associated, and ocean and other aquatic environments – …
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… lettuce and tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause much damage to the hosts, but they are carriers of several viruses (e.g., … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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… annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … wild populations is that tests to find associations between genotype – an organism’s genetic makeup – and phenotype – an … native state. During culture at 39°C, some of these half-dosage mutants died and others grew well; the survivors had …
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