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… for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … jointgeno.me/2024StrategicPlan .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national … for bioproducts to support the bioeconomy. Functional diversity theme. Reading the genomes of individual organisms …

… Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common … grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This is the first paper that describes sorghum’s … P. Sloan Foundation Grant 2013-10-27 (to the University of California, Berkeley [N.V.]); L’Ecole Normale …

… years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread adoption of Brachypodium distachyon as an experimental model for the … collaboration with industrial partners, generated hundreds of transgenic switchgrass lines in an effort to create …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers … feedstock with a complex genome with multiple copies of its chromosomes. Switchgrass has deep roots that allow it to access nutrients easily from a variety of soils and has a high tolerance of extreme water conditions …

… Sustainable Berkeley Lab maintains a  calendar of Earth Month events throughout April. This year, a new … striving for sustainability in lab spaces as well as offices. These efforts dovetail into sustainability … looking at the overall greenhouse gas impacts from all of our operations,” said Brie Fulton, program manager for  …

… sequencing projects carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley … a broad range of activities from proposal intake to publication. Information is also obtained and cross-checked …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … is a perennial grass that quickly grows in a variety of soils and water conditions, standing taller than basketball … customize the crop for additional end products. The genetic diversity within this set of plants, each with a …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. Scientists have … related 16S rRNA genes, but these genes mask the striking diversity of their genomic capabilities. According to Boeuf, …

… the fourth Director in its 27-year history. He has a wealth of managerial experience from almost 20 years in the … focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of novel production organisms and fermentation processes for … on secondary metabolites. He is also on the Leadership Team of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative and served as …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system … and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. In high latitudes, sphagnum can also act as a … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office …

… three new members earlier this month – Sneha Couvilion of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Chris Schadt of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elizabeth “Lizzy” … is a staff scientist at PNNL and thrust lead on PNNL’s Soil Microbiome SFA. She serves as Secretary within the …

… Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics technologies, keen interest in the bioenergy and biotechnology potential of algae, and sampling of the length and breadth of algal diversity, the numbers of sequenced algal genomes, and the …