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… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing … crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … genomes to a diploid state while retaining multiple copies of some genes. This polyploidization process is ongoing and …

… Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the highways of the continental United States, occasionally pulling over … related to clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. The JGI provides integrated …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … by tracing the evolution of a specific enzyme family called aminotransferases (ATs). These enzymes play a crucial role …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And …

… while, but Natural Prodcast is back again for another round of episodes. If you stick around for the next few months, … our eukaryotic genomes, all our eukaryotic genomes. Fungal plant, algal genomes, a lot of effort goes into generating … do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really important because we …

… human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19. Following the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, he developed … assembly, and improvement strategies for de novo sequencing of eukaryotic organisms from simple yeasts to large … For the past 13 years, Mr. Schmutz has directed the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community …

… his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the … multiDAP-seq assay, a method that enables high-throughput characterization of transcription factor binding sites and … of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. His team is also developing single-nuclei sequencing …

… In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both …   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days … we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I …