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… conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists … Torrres have looked into traits that could transfer from grasses into other crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that …

… metabolomics enables functional genome annotation, improves understanding of the role small molecules play in …

… establish the Natural Products Genomics Resource Center. To help enable the discovery of secondary metabolites, also … Camelina sativa , and generating their  genome sequences to improve breeding by genetic improvements. Apomixis is … of Georgia is interested in sequencing relatives of switchgrass that are apomictic. This trait would be beneficial for …

This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In …

… products.  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. … with adverse environmental conditions, researchers hope to improve yields for other crops under water-limited … the samples starting at 10am Pacific time. JGI researchers helped develop the overall experimental design, sequenced …

… and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Sorghum … genomes. Deep sequencing and genetic linkage analysis improve the genome’s accuracy, and increase its length by … like the soybean relative Glycine max ( 2014 ) and the grass Brachypodium distachyon ( 2017 ), have identified many …

… together.  The next 3 episodes are the story behind that giant assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the …

… paper that builds off their early collaborations that could help crop breeders and researchers predict how crops and model organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes … Rokhsar (both during and after his time at the JGI) as a helpful influence for both developing the method and …

Lab). Specific understanding of this symbiosis could offer improvements in multiple directions. On the fungi side, … These experiments focused on two species at once: the model legume species  Medicago truncatula and the … look at arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in other bioenergy grasses, like sorghum and switchgrass. We’re optimizing …

Lab). Specific understanding of this symbiosis could offer improvements in multiple directions. On the fungi side, …   These experiments focused on two species at once: the model legume species  Medicago truncatula and the … look at arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in other bioenergy grasses, like sorghum and switchgrass. We’re optimizing …

… on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as … decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a model for evolutionary studies. Its place among … by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related genes in more …