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… clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for saving Citrus from greening disease. You’ve probably … orange ripens only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the … P. trifoliata ’s genome. Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of …

… paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from … in my project was worth it whenever I was able to get a single line of code working and get the desired final …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated … developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated microbes, and then … world through bulk community sequencing (metagenomics) and single-cell genomics, the vast majority of microbes that …

Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). They are: Ivan Baxter of the Danforth Center, Sundy Maurice of the University of Oslo, Aaron … Baxter is a principal investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, where his group focuses on … Her research focus is genetically engineering the plant cell wall to address dairy sustainability challenges. She’s …

… the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often … FastTree and identified 62 distinct AT groups. However, no single AT group was conserved across all species — a …

… addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for  c hassis (or strain)-independent  r ecombinase- a … scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into the genome. “CRAGE is central to … Blow, and their team have also harnessed CRAGE to create a plant-fertilizing microbiome. In work  reported in  Applied …

… out to many researchers with the hope of getting support for a research project for his class of 18 juniors.  He got … , the Metagenome Program Head at the  U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) , a DOE Office of … and organic carbon concentration. From Field Studies to Publication Together as a class, the students learned about …