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Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much … Program portfolio , Sebastien Duplessis of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)  proposed … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. … to understanding what these viruses can do. Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, researchers …

JGI by identifying the actual molecules present in an environment that influence system behavior.  Through this identification, metabolomics enables functional genome annotation, improves understanding of the role …

JGI from all parts of the globe to gain lab experience and contribute to ongoing projects. In one way or another, they’ve all mentioned how invaluable …

For many scientists, the culmination of their work into a written report that is published in … research, written skill, above all else, determination. Rhondene Wint, an alumna of the DOE Joint Genome Institute …

Originally conceived as a UC Merced graduate student summer research … experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to include undergraduate students. To date, more than 80 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of numerous JGI scientists. …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … cumulatively called lignocellulose, are the primary components of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and … capable of naturally modifying lignin.  The Impact Traditional methods for breaking down biomass use aerobic methods …

… about natural products and the science and scientists of secondary metabolism. Natural products, secondary metabolites, and specialized metabolites all refer to … the chemicals that make species unique and different from one another. They are incredibly important to medicine, the …

… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … important cold-water communities of algae with warm-adapted ones, a trend that threatens to destabilize the delicate … Driven by climate change The team used a model from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment …

… include the following items: … Sequence files for all constructs should be emailed to  Miranda Harmon-Smith, Synthetic Biology Project Manager . … How To … File There are several easy-to-use open source tools for converting DNA sequence files into well-formed GenBank files. …

In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into …