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… to do an independent study on ethnobotany of some of the plants that people were using for medicines in this very … almost never Actinomycetes. And so when we look at their genomes we don’t get the same kind of information that we … That is one of the really big frontiers for the next stage of natural product drug discovery I think. Or even …

… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… accessible, AI-ready large-scale data repositories for genome information with analysis tools for mining and … Science Program, the JGI sequenced and characterized 270 genomes of the Clostridium genus for LanzaTech, information … Facultative Methylotroph technology — interact with rice plants. Using the JGI’s fabricated ecosystem technology ( …

… An improved genome assembly to support targeted tree breeding for the … are 900 species of eucalyptus. The trees are fast-growing plantation crops that supply wood and fiber for various … in South Africa. The South African team collected the plant tissues. DNA and RNA sequencing were conducted by the …

… 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 plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, … the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (PlantHUB 722338), the Georges and Antoine Claraz Foundation …

… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … also known as “polyploidy,” is common among flowering plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology for our Plant Program, and is further leveraging the services of the … Genomics Institute for DNA and RNA extractions to support plant and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing … food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person …