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… sequences from six hypersaline lakes, researchers focused on understanding the genomic variation in haloarchaea … and possibly cold-temperature enzymes for biotechnological use. Summary Conditions such as extreme cold, high levels of … applications. The work has been enabled through the JGI Community Science Program (CSP) . Cavicchioli and his …

… 2017 Summer Interns Share Highlights of their time at the JGI …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions, and … as  Sorghum bicolor — a  candidate bioenergy feedstock and  JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. …

… difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn limiting the use of modern, genomic breeding in these crops. For diploid … polyploid sugarcane genome now underway as part of the JGI Community Science Program (CSP), a critical factor in … crop that very efficiently converts solar energy into plant biomass, which can then be crushed to extract the …