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… that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for example, crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper … copies across the chromosomes. “In the past, we needed model systems to test genetic hypotheses in species with …

Nov. 2: Getting Credit for Scientific Contributions of Any Size What is considered … establishing a professional presence through getting credit for any scientific contribution they make, whether as part of a course or internship, and before ever publishing a research article. Speakers will …

National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. … at the JGI and Berkeley Lab, LRC, and at the Université des Antilles, described the morphological and genomic features … mangroves. “Mangroves and their microbiomes are important ecosystems for carbon cycling . If you look at the space …

Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna of the University of California (UC), Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National … accessible metagenomic datasets from a wide variety of ecosystems around the world, conducting iterative searches … good chance that nature was using it to do something important.” Related Publications:  A scoutRNA Is Required for Some …

… from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the … clusters showed a >95 % accuracy in correctly predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S et …

… sequence can lead to changes in protein structures and functions, but the DNA bases themselves can also be … its carbon ring, or 5mC. In many organisms, 5mC is an important piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not … ways to protect poplar and other crops being considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of …

… crop essential to their economies. It also plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and holds clues for maximizing soybean, the common bean’s close relative, as … specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model quite frequently for R&D in plant genomics, because it …