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Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader … role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal saprotrophs in the forest. White rot can break …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A reference … Understanding the evolution of polyploidy, and how genomes respond to extra chromosome and gene copies, will …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  … parallel. For example, the current version of the genome is assembled into sequences of 5.5 million basepair (bp) in …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative … at the University of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass …

… begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting …

… places that are considered to be inhospitable to humans are of particular interest. Matt also supports various CSP and FICUS user projects for the Metagenome Program. …