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… aren’t interested in waiting decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing collaborative effort to improve … customize the crop for additional end products. The genetic diversity within this set of plants, each with a … ago with a proposal from UT-Austin’s Tom Juenger, a longtime JGI collaborator and a senior author on this study. The …
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… of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed … Margulisbacteria were named for Lynn Margulis, the main proponent of the significance of endosymbiosis in evolution of … a renowned science popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then …
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… inside mitochondria, the energy-producing structures within cells. This is the largest dataset of its kind ever … as reliable markers for classifying species and studying diversity in complex biological systems. By making the tools … a widely used automated annotation tool missed at least one core gene in nearly half of those same genomes. The team …
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… of the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Research Center One Health Ruhr (OHR), and the DOE Joint Genome Institute … range of topics related to structural biology, single cell and systems biology, omics, and big data science, … for mass spectrometry applications, for example, or the timely controlled start of a biochemical reaction which can …
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… and more — however, a single reference genome shows only one slice of the adaptation possible for this plant. In other lines around the world, much more genetic diversity exists. Now, researchers have brought many … to build this pangenome, including a reassembly of the BTx623 reference genome. This cultivar has been the reference …
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… In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called … close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of the first cross-kingdom spatially-resolved … to date. This paper is the cover article for the April 2024 issue of Nature Plants . “We wanted to better …
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… to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their experiences below. Name: Noelle Anderson Class Year: At the time of the internship, 4th year PhD student in Quantitative … before. Seeing the breadth of interesting work being done at the JGI has really motivated me to think outside of …
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… polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene families involved in … into genes critical for roles including plant growth and cell wall development. M. polymorpha is also among one of … of plants. Pangenomes encompass a plant’s genetic diversity beyond a single reference genome, which is key to …
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… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in … giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on the order of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with … datasets becoming available but also complementary single-cell sorting and sequencing of viruses together with their …
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… least a microgram of DNA in the tube so you’d need at least 2 micrograms in the sample to start with. 2. Q: What would a typical turnaround time be for data once samples are in hand at JGI? A: It … 6. Q:How would field applications of the rhizoboxes mentioned in Jim Moran’s presentation work? A: As long as we …
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