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Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, … in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the …

… several UC Merced students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming … Interns Andrew Lin and mentor Vy Duong, Understanding Key Genes in Photosynthesis Ravikiran Madichetty and mentors TBK … on Fungal Genomes Video Transcript: Emerald Nash : What I’m working on here is an experimental study of root …

Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral … viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be … "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …

… [subhed -- copy to summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for … with access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other … stresses, and its transcriptome to learn more about which genes expression patterns. The analysis led to the …

… novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes … Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical … code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from …

… event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the … flux in marine microbial communities. Using the JGI-generated data, Sachia Traving, a former postdoctoral fellow …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of … (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene expression as it grows back vigorously year after year … of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy or biofuels. Although a member of the …

… a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that … of Missouri said he and his colleagues had identified 1,110 genes involved in lipid metabolism.  “There’s still a lot of … “Having the genomes of a crop like soybean ensures that what we bring to the grower is novel … We’re a long way …