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S. Ballon is the Communications and Outreach Manager at the JGI. Prior to this role, she served as the primary … from Wesleyan University, and a graduate certificate in science communication from UC Santa Cruz. She is one of the Biosciences Area representatives to Berkeley Lab’s Inclusion, …

… insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for … team. The work was a joint effort led by scientists at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and … to novel traits. M. sinensis is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is … has supported over 250 projects since it started. At the JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni also manages the Synthetic Biology … Editorial board member of Synthetic Biology (Oxford Journal) Review committee member of International Journal of …

Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — … secondary metabolites and associated genes are great resources for bioremediation, new agricultural applications or … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by … The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop … cultivar R570 has been generated and  reported in the journal  Nature . The work led by researchers at Australia’s …

… insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   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 focused …

… 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 …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since 2010, the JGI has supported researchers studying those microbial … producing things like meat, milk, and wool. Hear more from JGI collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural …