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… world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for … other crops facing similar pathogens. Summary Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid and have multiple … caused by the fungus,  Puccinia melanocephala . This plant pathogen used to cause sugarcane crop losses of up to …

… and semiconductor equipment manufacturer KLA-Tencor before joining the JGI in 2002. Initially focused on building tools to facilitate expert curation of human gene models in support of JGI’s contributions to the Human Genome … research efforts expanded to include basal metazoans and plants. Working with a talented team of scientists and …

… which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among the JGI Flagship Plants . Since 2007, the JGI has been working on identifying … the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model species. The following year saw the beginnings of …

Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome Institute, where he leads three … algal NADPH oxidase for biophotovoltaic energy. Plant biotechnology journal . 14: 1, 22-28. 2016 Blaby et. … and overlap with other stress transcriptomes. The Plant Journal . 84: 5, 974-988. 2015 Zones et. al., …

States. They also provided multiple access points to the information. The team harnessed a community-science program to … are transport systems, and their health is heavily reliant on the energy and nutrient flows that the microbes in … do—can help researchers develop predictive watershed scale models to manage river ecosystems. One application for the …

For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked … newest 5-Year Strategic Plan: Beyond Basepairs — A Vision for Integrative and Collaborative Genome Science , the … and incubation process. “JGI’s ‘vision’ is truly a tour de force,” said Mary Maxon, Biosciences Associate Laboratory …