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… were developed specifically to turn their biomass into sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s historical — and literal — roots could play …
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Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …
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… scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light availability. A long-running … Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study recently published … was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program (project …
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… sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … efficacy of RIViT-seq, researchers recently characterized 12 sigma factors and were able to identify the associated …
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On July 30, UC Merced students and their JGI mentors toasted to the end of a nine-week virtual … daily, check-ins with their mentors to ensure projects progressed despite the challenges of remote work. In … The 2020 JGI-UC Merced interns and mentor/s: Brendan Blasius & Guohong “Albert” Wu Edgar Jimenez & Sharon Greenblum …
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The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods (those using oxygen) to remove lignin … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential … Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-SC0020420 (MAO), Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies …
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… yield and climate resilience of algae — for potential use as biomass or in biomass conversion to biofuel. Summary … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through … uncultivated viruses. Following up on those guidelines, JGI researchers have now developed CheckV (pronounced … and removal of contamination from the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from the U.S. …
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… to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. These evolutionary … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … three strains of Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published May 2024 in Nature Genetics by an international research …
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… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are … the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. Grigoriev and …
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