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… bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) led a team that  identified a protein … growth, lignin production, and disease resistance.  The Impact With increased lignin and iron, engineered poplar can … Described as the “DOE Tree,” poplar is considered one of the  Flagship Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy …

… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a proof-of-concept study, researchers demonstrated that a new … S. paradoxus at high temperatures (39°C/102°F). The Impact One of the challenges in understanding wild … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model … them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been …