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A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput gene-editing tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a … in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials including sunlight, carbon and water, to convert them … that mimics chloroplast function within a cell-sized system. The Impact Photosynthesis harnesses carbon captured …

Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a model grass system for answers. Their work  recently appeared in  Nature …

Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for …

Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from … to support a forest, and species vary across Earth’s ecosystems.  Recently, in work  published in  New Phytologist , …

During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually with JGI mentors to investigate rigorous research … in professional development enrichment activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first …