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… organisms may evolve.  Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants chromosomes are present in more than two copies, a … of their ancestors. The method was tested on a number of plants, including  genomes of cotton lineages and the  …

… is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, … assays that can distinguish males and females even when plants with multi-year generation times are young and … some songbird W chromosomes — suggest that they are advantageous enough to have evolved multiple times independently. …

… that easily can identify secondary metabolite pathways in metagenomes, which is still hard to do. We are mining a lot of … transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to … of secondary metabolite pathways as viewed through metagenome studies, and what more JGI and others can do to …

… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to …