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… plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper … aren’t interested in waiting decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing collaborative effort to improve … test genetic hypotheses in species with large and complex genomes,” said Lovell. “However, new sequencing technologies …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related to her thesis on cone snails, UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and … defends her dissertation in May. Since its inception in 2014, more than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the …

… large DOE-funded research programs using mass spectrometry for energy and environmental research, including through the … Northen’s research is focused on using metabolomics to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes … the Division in 2015-2016. Dr. Northen regularly chairs workshops, organizes conference sessions, and serves on review …

… polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene families involved in … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … 35 major evolutionary plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. …

… always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … . By contrast, using a different endophytic fungus,  Ilyonectria europaea , had no effect on growth. Liao’s team … Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team …