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… believed. The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading … Their research, published in August 2023 in Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time estimates for … due to the wide and varied geographic footprint of the plant, that eelgrass began colonizing the oceans about 3 …
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… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his … the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, Keedrian … Ben Cole on a project involving bacteria in Arabidopsis plant roots. At the same time, Lawrence worked with Nicole …
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… evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components The Science There are three main … Research Center. O’Malley is also affiliated with JBEI. The JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also conducted RNA sequencing and alignment to the …
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… genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the JGI’s Emerging Technologies Opportunity Program (ETOP) , … functions in processes ranging from nutrient cycling to plant health and growth. Developing a scalable computational … samples. The work aligns with the ETOP mission of providing JGI users with the most current technology and expertise in …
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… systems, these communities remain understudied. Through the JGI’s Community Science Program, Colorado State University … program at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established … and metatranscriptomic sequencing was performed at the JGI under a Community Science Program and the University of …
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… of chemicals called terpenes. Terpenes are important in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions, and … as Sorghum bicolor — a candidate bioenergy feedstock and JGI Flagship Plant — could produce at least 15 zealexins. … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, through its …
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… targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two … develop genome-scale engineering technologies to control plants and microbes for bioproducts and biomaterial …
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… the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … for computational analysis of the AT enzyme family, the JGI provided DNA synthesis capabilities to enable functional …
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… The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, hosted three … learned so much in terms of scientific approach and as a plant biologist, I have learned so many techniques and …
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… organisms may evolve. Determining the genetic codes of plants is often challenging because in many plants … Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly … crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is octoploid (eight …
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… endobacteria, the Rhizopus fungus cannot act as a plant pathogen, it cannot reproduce asexually, and … the host. Using the mutualistic relationship between the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizopus microsporus (Rm) and … and experimented with the fungi and bacteria, while the DOE JGI team sequenced and annotated a host genome (Rm ATCC …
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