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Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover … able to tell the students that the paper was accepted for publication in a reputable scientific journal. It was …

… involvement with the DOE Joint Genome Institute dates back to 1997, when he was working for the Stanford Human Genome … project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and improvement strategies for de novo sequencing of eukaryotic … Award … Plant Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …

How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar … genetic information that crop breeders can use to improve sugarcane varieties and advance a sustainable …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and nutrients. … polar phytoplankton.  After peering into the function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest … the cotton genomes provides breeders with insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria … and fungi The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying … isotope probing (SIP) proved to vastly reduce labor and improve results. Applying this method to the study of a …

Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest … highlight biodiversity and how ecosystems are adapting to stresses. A total of 17 proposals have been approved … letters of intent submitted. Many of the proposals focus on harnessing genomics to developing sustainable resources for …

… poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand how ecosystems work and how … outlined in  Scientific Data connects molecular features to large ecosystem-level processes for the first time. By … and the role of microbes in mediating these processes. By harnessing the data made available through this …

The Secondary Metabolism Collaboratory encourages user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence …