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… working on identifying switchgrass genes related to biomass production, drought tolerance, and other traits that make it … reference genome built off more than a decade of work; as sequencing technologies advanced, assembly and annotation of …

… tools beyond biomass breakdown, extending into biochemical production.    Over time, as these projects have delivered … pave the way for many different kinds of plant-derived production.  “Sculpting those communities is really a hard …

… study subject that could lead to more sustainable energy production.  However, less than 10% of the microbes found in … “That is a very valid goal — not necessarily for biofuel production anymore, but for other bioproducts.”    …

… methane a year, which is over half the total global methane production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the … All three pathways require the gene cluster for methane production known as Mcr. Until recently, the Mcr gene … and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated high-throughput sequencing and computational analysis that enable …

… around the world whose livelihoods depend on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 … in the fabric of our lives. In the United States, cotton production centers around two varieties: 95 percent of what … their genomes were “remarkably” stable. “We thought we were sequencing the same genome multiple times,” Schmutz …

… created in 1997 to unite the expertise and resources in DNA sequencing, informatics, and technology development … accomplishment, the JGI went on to advance basic science by sequencing scores of microbial species as well as several …

… and opens up a new avenue to explore for efficient biofuel production. …