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… Knockout experiments showcase potential for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at … nutrient-poor land, drought and disease.  Summary In the 1970s, the DOE  targeted poplar as its primary wood crop for … of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and is supported …

… New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between DOE JGI, UC … of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative Systems Biology … I’ll take that knowledge back with me.” Now a second-year evolutionary biology student in David Ardell’s lab, he …

… Sugarcane was the last major crop without a reference quality … production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been  published in  Nature by an international … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence …

… P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The … more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change … United States began forming in Alaska. Over the next two years it slowly spread, raising water temperatures by a few … and 2016, Hallam and his colleagues collected more than 270 water samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water …

… Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a … type of food that was in the contaminated aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were … The work (proposal:  10.46936/10.25585/60000717 ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel … This work was supported by the Plant-Microbe Interfaces program at the … managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the DOE. The work conducted by the DOE Joint Genome …

… An improved genome assembly to support targeted tree … | Genetics , with significant advances compared to the 2014 Eucalyptus grandis reference genome that has been … sets of chromosomes inherited from each parent. It also has 700-fold greater contiguity, meaning the genome is …

… With a new methodology, scientists are now getting more complete … metagenomic sequencing and single-cell sequencing. For years, extracting single cells and then amplifying their DNA … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital …

… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex … view of a population’s genetic makeup and identifying viruses interacting with these populations. Development of … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 … CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, but these … genes were essential to  Y. lipolytica . They identified 1,377, or 17.5 percent, of  Y. lipolytica ’s genes to be …