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… (perenniality). The Impact Among the long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock crops are increasing their yields and … miscanthus often appear in discussions of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy … Berkeley and the HudsonAlpha Center for Biotechnology. Most plants are diploids with two copies of each chromosome, one …

The Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference (PAG) takes place … and how you can use the KBase system to accelerate your plant genomics research. Click here to download a list of … relevant to JGI science at PAG XXVII. On January 14, JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz and  KBase Co-PI Bob …

… developments for improving microbial, metagenomic, or plant genome assemblies. [Download PDF] Q2 – Report on … improving the interpretation of microbial, metagenomic, or plant genomes. [Download PDF] End-of-year Goal – Develop one …

Guiding Principles All staff members of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence …

Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the significant role sex plays in how … which is tough on the type of microbes that break down plant matter. This means plants don’t fully decompose in …

… internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from … graduate student Mentors: Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, Fungal and Algal Program What effect has your summer … academia and helped me consider working for a Department of Energy site after graduate school. Furthermore, my mentor …

… fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii … ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There … lessons they can teach us, are why the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of …

… more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of … latest article, published January 27, is about engineering plants and their microbiomes for more sustainable … researcher Sara Calhoun, data scientist Stephen Mondo, and  Fungal and Algal program lead Igor Grigoriev took readers on …

… in 2018. She selected one of the projects posted by JGI fungal researchers, Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, and … “Fungi are the masters of adaptation,” Wint explained. The fungal kingdom contains over one million different species … theory — the most expressed genes found across each of the fungal species were protein-coding hotspots. “Ensuring that …

The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are … fruit and seed yield. Conversely, some crops such as bioenergy sorghum may need sterile males; plant breeding …

… that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for … an ongoing collaborative effort to improve the emerging bioenergy crop switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ), which has … basketball star LeBron James. In each garden, switchgrass plants clonally propagated from cuttings represent a diverse …