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… need corn, sorghum and other crops to grow well in worse conditions: with more heat, less water and less fertilizer. Grasses do better in these conditions, so plant biologists James Schable, Guangchao Sun …

… in the soil, and microbes are the VIPs. They’re feasting on the compounds that plants secrete through their roots, creating a lively zone called the rhizosphere. In this episode, biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has your backstage pass. …

… a renewable energy future? Can they help lock away more carbon? Xiaohan Yang, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, believes they can. And, what’s more, that using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will …

… develop, deploy, and maintain software that support the JGI’s Synthetic Biology Program .  Representative software … of tools to automate sequence design for assembly by Gibson, Yeast recombination and Golden Gate methods SynTrack and associated tools, which track samples through the JGI’s Synthetic Biology pipeline as well as provide process …