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… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could … groves: citrus greening. From 2012 to 2016, in Florida alone this disease caused an estimated $4 billion in losses. … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), played a critical role in assembling, annotating and analyzing the genome in order to …

… Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant … aren’t interested in waiting decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing collaborative effort to improve … average of 25,000 bp pieces. That’s the difference between assembling a 10,000-piece puzzle and doing the same puzzle …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples … Through the JGI’s Community Science Program , the team used metagenome assemblies, transcriptomes and single amplified …

… show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, … of archaea called  Euryarchaeota . These ancient, single-celled organisms thrive in most  environments devoid of … .  Researchers started by collecting samples from Yellowstone’s hot springs, an extreme environment with low genetic …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a … cycle. The Science Chloroplasts are the factories in plant cells. Using photosynthesis, they take raw materials … Future’ Programme, University of Bordeaux Initiative of Excellence (IDEX Bordeaux; (ANR)-10-IDEX-03-02). T.E.M. and …

… view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and … In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called … close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of the first cross-kingdom spatially-resolved …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be … hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix …