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… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper … collaboration that produced the reference genome sequence for Eucalyptus grandis. Accessing recently burned …

… Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is …

… The Mycological Curriculum for Education and Discovery  (Myco-Ed) is a … Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is to: train students … Beyond providing a scalable solution for production of high-quality …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human genome. Today, the Sanger Institute … hot topics in genomics.” And it makes sense to Woyke why JGI would have this role. “We work with leaders in …

… around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what …