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… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers … feedstock with a complex genome with multiple copies of its chromosomes. Switchgrass has deep roots that allow it … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) supports research programs for developing methods for converting plant biomass into …

… using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

… Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to … down biomass and help bring about a more sustainable, biobased economy. They conduct research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have … help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, transforming, and respiring carbon. Understanding the metabolisms …

… demonstrate how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational science and enable … to advance biotechnology. Mission  As a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility supported by the Biological …

… Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and … samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to … Fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of the Marine Microbiology Initiative. She conducted her …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of … and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Wilbanks of the University of California, Santa Barbara. They join eight other JGI users … user facility operations and expertise in mass-spectrometry-based metabolomics and lipidomics to make recommendations to …

… DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of … Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. … as a postdoctoral fellow. When he applied to the discovery-based position at the LRC that would see him working at the …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … double-strand DNA break, a dysfunctional sgRNA would be harmless. The team was thus able to measure sgRNA effectiveness …

… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, … metabolites and associated genes are great resources for bioremediation, new agricultural applications or … has set out to generate high-quality genome assemblies and annotations for 35 species representing all major …

… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of … the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research at the …