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… Originally conceived as a UC Merced graduate student summer research … students. To date, more than 90 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of numerous JGI scientists. … allowed them to:  Learn new skills. Experience industry-level work and coding. Receive mentorship, network and connect …

… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane genome . … of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn … The final sugarcane sequence generated is 382 Mb; 25,316 protein-coding gene models were predicted with more than …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea … separately. From these samples, 111 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) were recovered, most of them archaea. The … communities collected. The team noticed some of the genomes diverged evolutionarily from other previously …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy … of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  … HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon … heavy metal contamination, and drought. The moss genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of … about the work, the effort to fully sequence the fire moss genomes ran the gamut of sequencing technologies, from …

… they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at … are.” But according to a new study published September 16, 2021 in Nature Communications , warmer waters and … and stark the biogeographic boundary is between them. The data is somewhat beautiful in that regard,” said Andy Allen, …

… JGI researchers demonstrate how their laboratory and data science efforts support users, advance foundational science and enable biotechnology discoveries. (Pictured from left to right: Peng Wang, Sravanthi …