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… – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on … Merchant is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …

… to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among the JGI Flagship Plants . Since 2007, the JGI has been working on identifying … team to associate climate adaptations with switchgrass biology. Switchgrass has a large polyploid genome, which … and environments. The long-term investments in both the genomics and gardens are helping these shrubby grasses …

… miscanthus often appear in discussions of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy … Berkeley and the HudsonAlpha Center for Biotechnology. Most plants are diploids with two copies of each chromosome, one inherited from each parent. Some plants, known as polyploids, have more than two copies of …

… birds are chirping and a soft breeze ripples through the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California … brings a bioinformatics expertise, a combination of biology and computer science, to reveal clues about how … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …