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… Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology teaching labs. The purpose of the program is to: train students and professors in laboratory techniques and data … Beyond providing a scalable solution for production of high-quality …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early … conditions. Additionally, high-temperature (thermophilic) microbes are of interest for their potential use in number … thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence from just a few pieces of DNA. Summary The extreme …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In … then used a series of random insertions of a foreign DNA sequence to generate a huge pool of mutants, each containing … died and others grew well; the survivors had their DNA sequenced at the JGI as part of a 2014 Community Science …