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… seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the … these plant genome sequences also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for … it leads to reduced harvest yields. Over thousands of years, farmers have selected for cereal plants without this …

… contributing to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic … aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were … remain.  To identify the microbes involved in the early years of the biodegradation process, researchers collected …

… served as a Research Molecular Biologist at the USDA for 12 years where he was a driving force behind the development of … correlates with population structure. Nat. Comm. 8(1), 2184 doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02292-8 Genetics and Genomics …

… look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every … the simplest cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders … lineages had dispersed and diversified over a million years ago, their genomes were “remarkably” stable. “We …