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… have been elected to the User Executive Committee of the Joint Genome Institute, a Department of Energy user … Bik is a recipient of the Community Science Program (CSP) New Investigator call. Through membership in the UEC, … professor at Michigan State University. He studies fungal biodiversity, ecology, and evolution, with a focus on …
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… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent … paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant Marchantia … They hypothesized that certain gene families — including fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the …
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… The Science Enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … the ecosystem response to climate change. Through the CSP, researchers are aiming to have two high quality …
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… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic … genetic material of Olpidium. They inoculated cucumber roots with zoospores of Olpidium bornovanus and allowed the …
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