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… 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 …

… 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 …

… highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science.” Less than 6,200 … of 135 fungal sequenced genomes to understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how the mutualistic associations allow host plants to acquire nutrients. The papers appeared in  Studies …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

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 …