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… that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local environments; for … , and the  Joint BioEnergy Institute —have expanded the network of common gardens and are exploring improvements to switchgrass through more targeted genome …

US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: the 50th celebration of … we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person …

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

… of microbiome omics data Developing forward-looking strategies for the deployment of computational workflows at …

… miscanthus often appear in discussions of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy … Center for Biotechnology. Most plants are diploids with two copies of each chromosome, one inherited from each … parent. Some plants, known as polyploids, have more than two copies of each chromosome, and more complex patterns of …

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 hurdle: ginormous sex …