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… a 473-million basepair genome of the common bean, identifying genes related to disease-resistance, flowering time, … Traditionally beans have had a shelf-life about roughly 6-9 months before their color begins to darken. Called … iron content and have a longer shelf-life — up to four years. Work is now underway to transfer the trait into other …

… ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an email. “Therefore, …

… solve energy and environmental challenges. Over the past 25 years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of …

… the globe via their laptops or even smartphones. This year’s three-day conference featured keynote speeches from … of genetics at UC Riverside. Her work focuses on identifying transposable elements (TEs) — also known as “jumping … built their careers off McClintock’s early work by identifying mutations that, for example, turn maize (where …

… the project. Also my area of expertise over the past couple years is a little bit different from what I did during the …

… of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments all over the world, scientists have … Research and Innovation Programme (grant agreement no. 832601). …

… databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called … 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying more than 10,000 inovirus-like sequences compared to the 56 previously known inovirus genomes. “These genomes are so …

… the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, P23117-B17, P25111-B22, P26392-B20, and I1628-B22), the JGI (CSP 605), the German Research Foundation (DFG, PE 2147/1-1), the …