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… In our warming world, we’ll need corn, sorghum and other crops …

… propagated from cuttings represent a diverse collection sourced from half of the United States. As  reported January … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National …

… Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly … method can be  accessed here so that, Session said, other scientists can “follow a step-by-step process to apply it to … genes from all possible candidate ancestors are available. Our method clearly identifies the four subgenomes based on …

… the ENIGMA SFA project. In 2015, he founded what is now the JGI Metabolomics Program to provide advanced metabolomic methods available to JGI users.  Dr. Northen’s research is focused on using … Trent Northen is the Metabolomics Science Program Head at the JGI. Click to learn more about …

… bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria … and Saganbacteria were named for Carl Sagan, a renowned science popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus …

… of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s … as carbon sinks and minimize their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses … Harvesting peat for energy has been increasingly discouraged due to associated greenhouse gas emissions as well …