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… recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their local … is a perennial grass that quickly grows in a variety of soils and water conditions, standing taller than basketball … biologist at HudsonAlpha and first author of the study. “For that, it’s necessary to have the plant’s genome …

… hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … but these symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these … the microorganisms had a close relationship. Then, using metagenomes and metatranscriptomes generated by the U.S. …

… these teams provide analysis support and R&D for production and user science. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome … Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The … mats at Yellowstone offer researchers an analog for studying early Earth conditions. Additionally, … Through the JGI’s Community Science Program , the team used metagenome assemblies, transcriptomes and single amplified …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … microbiome data. In other environments, such as terrestrial soil, having additional isolates and metagenomic datasets …

… cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial …

… But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant metabolic … A portion of this research was performed under the Facilities …

… chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene … abilities to adapt to extreme environments such as poor soils and drought. The reference genome for M. sinensis, and … history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and complex genome of M. sinensis …

… The chromosome-scale genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that … never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  … JGI collaborator, are senior authors of the  recent study published in  The Plant Journal.  this study included …

… The  National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … Q:  Does NEON have or plan on collecting RNA samples from soil or surfaces for microbe-focused collections? A: Not at … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …