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How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major …

Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. … paper in the journal PLoS One . “Puerto Nuevo is, historically, a fishing town and we know little about its coastal …

Dr. Blow joined the JGI in 2009, and currently heads the User Support Analysis group. He … Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome … transcriptome, epigenome and other functional genomics datasets generated by JGI user science projects. … BS in …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into … chromosomes ever identified in the plant kingdom. Specifically, researchers found that female plants within a species …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful, high-throughput … help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day … that’s just a little west of Fort Collins, near a city called Leadville. ED:   And, uh, Leadville is interesting. …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … bean. Though the JGI no longer works on food crops specifically, “[At the JGI] we do use Phaseolus as a test model … classes of beans.” … P. vulgaris on Phytozome … Plant Datasets …

… [subhed -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing … biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide … sequence and then analyze the genomes and multi-omics datasets for algae that can be used for large-scale …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, … strain engineering, and biosystems design for DOE-mission-relevant discovery and applications. This program has …

DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley and work in the pharmaceutical … Institute, a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and … Riley et al (2016) Comparative genomics of biotechnologically important yeasts.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. …