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… In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: … from grasses into other crops.  One grass they studied just happened to be the same species that covered World Cup …

… in mammals: a structure that helps correct deleterious mutations. The Impact Shrub willow and its close relative  Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three groups focused on HTP DNA design and assembly, strain engineering and … biology and functional genomics. Prior to joining the JGI, he was a group lead at Brookhaven National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected … in Los Angeles, Calif.  Roux is also one of the lead organizers of the Viral EcoGenomics & Applications (VEGA) …

… Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, developed an … methods to discover new anti-CRISPRs,” said Adair Borges, a graduate student in bacterial immunologist Joe …

… of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in the bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and  Bifidobacterium,  …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which … and more. And eventually, their findings could help us grow better crops, with less impact on our planet. …

… With increased lignin and iron, engineered poplar can be used to develop bioproducts for industrial applications. For example, lignin could be used for … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …

… at the 5th position on its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate … the genome. Many plant pathogens such as the fungi that cause poplar leaf rust, are rich in transposons, which may … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and others like …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his … Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the … experience will help them direct their career trajectories. Finally, we anticipate that as this program grows there will …