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… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In providing a reference sugarcane  genome , the JGI provides foundational genetic information that crop … protect other crops facing similar pathogens. Summary Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid and have multiple …

… analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … she said. Listen to study co-author Dan Udwary talk about genome mining using the GEM catalog in  this episode …

… crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how … HudsonAlpha. As the team discussed in a JGI podcast episode about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss …

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… waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” … will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature Microbiology , a team led by scientists at … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, developed an …

… forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way … from a wildfire that burned at the Colorado-Wyoming border, about a year after the fire. They sampled soil across a … and growth.  This study builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful …

… ultimate achievement. To get to this point requires rigorous research, written skill, above all else, determination. … Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)-UC Merced internship program and current PhD student, … Grigoriev at the JGI strongly influenced her perspective about what it means to be a scientist. “To see how team …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by … degrade the plant biomass. In order to learn more about these regulatory networks in the model fungus  N. … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… an array of experiments at universities and national user facilities, researchers found that this protein detects … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … we were able to work with on this project to ask questions about structure and function,” Blaby-Haas said.  Looking at …