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

… Institute.  The Science Researchers report the discovery of miniature Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then biochemically characterized by a team … and either delete or add genes in a precise fashion) has applications across many areas. In particular, gene editing …

… Novel study looks at microbiomes in aerial surfaces of plants and their roles in plant health … do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community composition and functional potential … ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 …

… with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … characterizing sigma factors is the most straightforward application of the technology, in principle, RIViT-seq can … the 5’-ends by 5’-end sequencing, from which those promoter sequences recognized by a given sigma factor are inferred. …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes …

… Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, Tingting Xiang and … lignin, engineering heat-resilient algae for industrial applications, and developing RNA barcoding systems to … the research consortium aims to generate over a terabase of sequence. “We are thrilled to support this year’s CSP …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers … of Energy (DOE) supports research programs for developing methods for converting plant biomass into sustainable fuels … Through the JGI’s Community Science Program , JGI sequenced and assembled near-complete genomes of P. hallii …

… Nandita is involved in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells …