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… Australia but is increasingly farmed in other countries for essential oil production. The recent assembly of two … are desirable from a biofuels production perspective. By using genomic database alignment tools, researchers searched … that these plants synthesize a high level of secondary metabolites which play a part in biotic and abiotic stress …

… tool that can help scientists engineer organisms for bioenergy applications. Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it … , a team of researchers likewise honed their tool before felling their research problem: at a genetic level, how … to be required for growth. By contrast, an initial screen using an unvetted library (with both active and inactive …

… which could then be converted into sustainable biofuels . For its importance to the DOE mission, switchgrass is among … productivity across 1,100 miles and eight states. In 2021, using switchgrass samples from these gardens, a team led by … Phytozome. The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to associate climate …

… the Advanced Analysis Group Lead in the Data Science and Informatics Department at the Joint Genome Institute. His team … and scientists builds and operates the data and compute platforms and bioinformatics annotation pipelines that support JGI’s portals, tools, and the DOE’s …

… Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field … waters and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada … ecology. We also know little about where to collect the California Cone Snail  Californiconus californicus (and cone …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza of … the protective function of zealexins and related compounds for other plants, including those cultivated for bioenergy. …

… infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest … more productive cacao plants and ensure there will be cocoa for chocolate tomorrow In 2010, a draft first genome of  … assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology . An updated reference genome for  T. …

… This single environmental trigger highlights efficiency for users requiring multiple omics methods to examine … complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of mSystems , … Most Streptomyces species can produce roughly 30 secondary metabolites — chemical compounds not required for basic …

… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm … known up until now, and identified many novel structure predictions,” said lead author on the paper Georgios … unique makeup of microbe players and the functions they perform, artificially replicating a whole community is …