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… Congratulations to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers at the JGI! … fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by … that  released a very high quality reference genome sequence of green millet ( Setaria viridis ) in  Nature …

… The JGI was honored to host some of the brightest minds in genetics as part of our  2022 … Jill Banfield approached Doudna with repeated genetic sequences (already known as CRISPR) that came up in her … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Dr. Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular … at Berkeley Lab. She is spearheading the development of a joint user capability between the JGI and Molecular … PhD, Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida NIH Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … in every corn variety and protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that … Research was supported by grants from the USDA NIFA AFRI (1758976 to …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high quality reference S. viridis genome sequence. Analysis of these plant genome sequences also led …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team … and others that preferred the hollows. Those genome sequences showed not only that the sex of a sphagnum plant …