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… shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. … and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ Editor’s Note: Merchant is also a faculty …

… of CSP projects and, with concurrence from the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) …

… traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than …

… microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the … plates pull apart. As those plates separate, seawater seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with … conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and archaea. Many of the samples shared a …

… support plant and other efforts. The JGI works closely with DOE computational facilities (e.g., the National Energy … Center (NERSC) and data infrastructure projects—the DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) and the National …

… secondary metabolites are produced by groups of genes known as biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs.) As … specific features or tools. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley …

… believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading … ocean — occupying just 0.2% of the ocean floor, these meadows are responsible for almost one-third of carbon … well as California and Mexico. Based on the study, it would seem that once conditions became right for eelgrass, it was …

… and the JGI. Building off this work, researchers at three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs) have expanded the … Center), HudsonAlpha and the JGI also identified a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. A …

… is critical to energy independence in the U.S. Not only does it pair with maize, the dominant source of bioethanol, … a number of projects that point to the potential of seed oils as biofuel. After analyzing the original sequence, … of Missouri said he and his colleagues had identified 1,110 genes involved in lipid metabolism.  “There’s still a lot of …