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… genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers … about their ability to adapt to changing environments, scientists have turned their attention to the pangenomes of … of the  Marchantia pangenome, scientists developed a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific …

… genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga Plocamiomonas psychrophila can … recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed significant … increased nutrient uptake and decreased cell death.  Scientists then extracted RNA to analyze gene expression, to …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists around the world. Most of those researchers send … the sequencing lab. So today, Chris Daum walks through the JGI’s sequencing pipeline, where there are freezers with …