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The Case for Conservation
… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major … team led by McDaniel and his former graduate student Sarah Carey, now at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, …
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The More the Merrier: Making the Case for Plant Pan-genomes
Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their … their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies …
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Calculating the Costs of Multiple Switchgrass Gene Copies
… at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … researcher Joseph Napier from the Juenger lab and computational biologist Paul Grabowski of HudsonAlpha outline the …
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