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… seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the … these plant genome sequences also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for … it leads to reduced harvest yields. Over thousands of years, farmers have selected for cereal plants without this …

… contributing to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic … aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were … remain.  To identify the microbes involved in the early years of the biodegradation process, researchers collected …

… look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every … the simplest cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders … lineages had dispersed and diversified over a million years ago, their genomes were “remarkably” stable. “We …

Biology JGI Co-chair, People Stewardship committee (2020-2022) UCLA Molecular Biology Institute Postdoctoral Award …

… from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated … Nat Microbiol . 8(5):751-753. Nayfach A, et al. 2021. A genomic catalogue of Earth’s microbiomes. Biotechnol . …

… lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater ecosystem works.  So a few years ago, when they set out to analyze 500 metagenomes, it …

… done the groundbreaking work you’ve been reading about for years! And you can ask them about it! And they’re super …