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… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. … switchgrass respond to pronounced climate shifts. (C4 plants use a more efficient form of photosynthesis that … More genome copies in switchgrass leads to increased climate flexibility …

… My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that transposable elements (TEs) contributed to in the grass model species Brachypodium hybridum . …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on … was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among … interactions. This work,  recently published in  The ISME Journal , by contrast, relied on methods that eschew …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … bean. That work was published online June 8, 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a major societal …

… the second year of Alabama A&M University students coming to the DOE Joint Genome Institute for research and … by a DOE training grant.  Building off the previous year’s project, undergraduate interns Tamyra Long and Zyiah Mikes … steps of the experiment from growing and inoculating the plants to harvesting the plants and extracting DNA. They also …

… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper … of a pivotal plant as well as the evolution of seed plants, the fern’s distant cousin. Ceratopteris richardii, or … space and genome biology . The undeniable power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why the U.S. …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … at a genetic level, how does  Y. lipolytica work? The project was a multi-institutional effort led by … four genes, including one with no prior known function. The project’s success demonstrates how to sharpen the …

… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership … through the Joint BioEnergy Institute and the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI … to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …

… Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments better? We could unlock new innovations to … are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …