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Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” … base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, … key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that … storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … flood hardiness. Even with little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and … climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in common …

… and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… to the chemicals that make species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to medicine, the environment, and human health. As the JGI acts on …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, … scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … list of genes, termed  The GreenCut2 Resource . It details 597 genes coding for proteins that are unique to …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes … and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating … of the sequences from a bulk metagenome, to just over 50 percent of the targeted metagenome sequence reads. This …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes … the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department of …