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… with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology for our Plant Program, and is further leveraging the services of the … Genomics Institute for DNA and RNA extractions to support plant and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE …

… and Environmental Research (BER) program, set the final sequence allocation for this program. …

… the foundation for a large-scale CSP proposal submission. Sequence requests should not exceed 3 Tb in total. Proposals …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which … plant resilience and productivity. The algal genomes sequences are available on the JGI’s  PhycoCosm portal. … …

Spatafora of Oregon State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes … by more than 100 participants. Roughly 700 have been sequenced and annotated, representing 384 fungal families … along with 100 of his colleagues in the comparative plant genomics community. The project’s aim is to generate …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …

For the past 13 years, Mr. Schmutz has directed the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community … Bennetzen, JL & Schmutz, J et al. 2012. Reference genome sequence of the model plant Setaria. Nature Biotechnology … Nature 2010;463:763-8. Schmutz, J et al. 2010. Genome sequence of the palaeopolyploid soybean. Nature 4637278: …

… 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 … with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This metabolism, called crassulacean acid …

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha … Schmutz is the Plant Program Lead at the JGI. Sarah:  Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant …

… with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the … could be superfemale plants that have increased fruit and seed yield. Conversely, some crops such as bioenergy sorghum …