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… 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 … it, which exact base or series of bases you have to alter.’ Why should we invest in something that may not be an …

… about 200,000 fungal species have been named. Among those sequenced, roughly half of all genes have completely unknown … for prediction of fungal lifestyles based on genome sequences.” The Fungal Knowledge Gap The fungal kingdom … species lies an even thornier problem: The genomes already sequenced don't adequately capture the vast nature of fungal …

… soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for … these RNA reads. “Currently, this is the largest JGI-sequenced fungal metatranscriptome yet,” said Igor …

… to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then … through photosynthesis, but only a fraction have been sequenced.  Adriana Lopes dos Santos from Singapore’s … also approved to learn more about the roles of diatoms in carbon fixation and in aquatic food webs. Finally,  …

… new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of … of that machine — photosynthesizers’ DNA and RNA. These sequences provide a list of machine parts, and an idea of … the cell, Grosjean used the JGI-developed  guideRNA and Sequence Extraction Tool (gRNA-SeqRET) to produce knock-out …