Search

… around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their … crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … plant’s traits and genetic diversity,” said John Lovell, an evolutionary biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study …

… genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … in  Nature by an international consortium. With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the …

Our lab is using mass spectrometry based metabolite profiling to provide … direct biochemical datasets to improve our understanding of microbial metabolism. Of particular interest is …

… those recognized by Clarivate Analytics as “true pioneers in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by … Biotechnology.  The work also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the …

New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy … I’ll take that knowledge back with me.” Now a second-year evolutionary biology student in David Ardell’s lab, he also …