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Does time matter? Intraspecific diversity of ribosomal RNA genes in lineages of the allopolyploid model grass Brachypodium hybridum with different evolutionary ages
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Quantitative trait loci for cell wall composition traits measured using near-infrared spectroscopy in the model C4 perennial grass Panicum hallii
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Decomposing a San Francisco estuary microbiome using long-read metagenomics reveals species- and strain-level dominance from picoeukaryotes to viruses
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What Happens Underground Influences Global Nutrient Cycles
DOE user facilities EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS … projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy … reaction networks, and also assessing the role of viruses in the soil microbiome. Another accepted proposal in …
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Shattering Expectations: Novel Seed Dispersal Gene Found in Green Millet
Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and … The weedy grass was green millet (Setaria viridis), a small model grass with a short lifecycle that uses a carbon …
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Building Sphagnum Genomic Resources
Sphagnome data would enable researchers’ insights on their … a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact …
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A novel open-source cultivation system helps establish the first full cycle chemosynthetic symbiosis model system involving the giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum
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A Plant Root Atlas for Tracking Developmental Trajectories
A collaborative team led by Geoffrey Schiebinger at the … nearly 100,000 single root cells and combining the information with previously published datasets. The work was  … for still larger efforts in diverse plant species beyond models,” he said. Cole annotated cell types in the plant …
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Pinning Down a Piece of Photosynthesis
By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have … and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe and the fuel for food webs as they turn carbon dioxide and water into … experimentally, Blaby-Haas, Grosjean and their team used a model organism that produces this domain as a stand-alone …
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Olpidium, The Key to the Origin of Terrestrial Fungi
Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … tobacco. Olpidium itself doesn’t cause much damage to the hosts, but they are carriers of several viruses (e.g., Lettuce big-vein associated virus LBVaV; …
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Frederik Schulz
Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages of Life Group. His research … of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. Schulz employs … discovery pipeline and enrichment metagenomics for terrestrial protists. These approaches enable novel …
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You Can Move, But You Can’t Hide
Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are … and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in …
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