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… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… peering into the function and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom … temperatures characteristic for polar oceans. In this study, they’ve cracked open the genome of another polar …

… This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s … UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …