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… A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground … carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular …

… Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This is the … experiment to uncover the mechanisms behind sorghum’s capacity to produce high yields despite drought conditions. The … or 44% of expressed genes respond to drought stress regardless of whether drought was applied before or after the …

… This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in New … 7   9:15am PT (online) Town Hall on the role of user facilities in accelerating research and tips for submitting … Damerow, Berkeley Lab (short talk): “How do we make interdisciplinary sample data more FAIR?” December 16 7:55am, …

… (AICE) Biology class at Florida’s Boca Raton Community High School. The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do you … inspiring her to get into science and wanted to pay it forward. Defining a Diverse Research Topic After a video …

… base is a methylation of the base cytosine at the 5th position on its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an … considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for … conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is supported …

… Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The … as antibiotics. But zealexins are almost completely limited to maize. By deciphering the zealexin synthesis … defense in maize, which has been largely overlooked, according to the study’s senior author Alisa Huffaker, a …

… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered … by the USA Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), a DOE Office of Science …

… team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich at the University of California, … from Agri-Food Canada at Summerland BC aimed to generate whole genome data of Olpidium. This required an enormous … This process was repeated multiple times in order to obtain enough zoospores. DNA and RNA samples …

… JGI is in the process of shifting its operations from Walnut Creek to the heart of the … in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united the genomics expertise of three national labs in one … of the JGI’s sequencing platforms were turned back on. A third sequencing platform was scheduled to resume production …

… 25th anniversary . Over the next few months, we’ll be revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy … years, the JGI has hosted interns from a number of universities and organizations. From field research and wet lab …

… both when and how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in  August 2023 in  … floor, these meadows are responsible for almost one-third of carbon sequestered in the ocean. In addition to … 67 million years ago, the ancestor to eelgrass underwent a whole genome duplication event, doubling all of its …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy … right now, and eight more that we are likely to take forward with material in hand,” said Jeremy Schmutz, lead of the …