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… to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a model for evolutionary studies. Its place among early-diverging … of the  Marchantia pangenome, scientists developed a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with …

… Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and … their expertise in environmental genomics by writing for the column Genome Watch in  Nature Reviews Microbiology … the article comes out — about two months after the first draft. Woyke has so far selected the authors of these …

… Knockout experiments showcase potential for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at … iron, engineered poplar can be used to develop bioproducts for industrial applications. For example, lignin could be … to be involved in   iron deficiency response, formation of secondary cell walls (biosynthesis), and integrating …

… Understanding the genetic underpinnings responsible for these traits takes us closer to harnessing algae for … bioenergy and the greater bioeconomy. By bringing together publicly available genomic data on algae into one place, … Knowledgebase (KBase) also allows researchers to study how metabolites flow through and transform in algae. PhycoCosm …

… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can … with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been … 2016YFD0600101), and the National Key Project for Basic Research (2012CB114504). The work conducted by the …

… The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … approach to isolate cellulose-degrading microbes. They first bound single microbes to fluorescently labeled … whole genome amplification and shotgun sequencing. The team first tested the approach on bacterial laboratory models to …

… the Community Science Program’s  Functional Genomics call for proposals .  On July 8, JGI’s DNA Synthesis Science … a University of Texas at Austin professor, “but we really first heard about the JGI synthesis grant during a … Science Head] Yasuo [Yoshikuni] gave back in 2016.” Alper’s first approved JGI proposal came through the Functional …

… those big goals with their everyday activities, striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability commitments for the wider … Waste Initiative — that works to prepare the IGB to be the first Lab building with laboratories where 90% of landfill …

… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” In this study,  published … order to interrogate each one’s function. However, the team first needed to fix a defect in the approach: CRISPR-Cas9 …

… in professional development enrichment activities. For some students in the 2021 cohort, this was their first internship experience, while others further along in … new skills needed for their PhD research. And for the first time in this program’s history, two interns returned …