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… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land … This work was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (DBI-1652164, 1933521), the Nebraska …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major part of … of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award to S.B.C.; NSF DEB-1239992 to …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… The human-centered, agile collaboration between the JGI and the information technology company Truss has resulted in the JGI Data … portal Phytozome . Although the Data Portal is currently only accessible via Phytozome, the improvements it … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of … terpenes play key roles in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions. Terpenes are also economically … plants. The locations of TPS genes and gene clusters were mapped against those of E. grandis to find differences in …

… chromosomes of Miscanthus arose by ancient hybridization (polyploidy) and insights into the dynamics of gene expression as it grows back vigorously year after year (perenniality). The Impact Among the long-term aims for bioenergy feedstock crops are … DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. While a hill of beans may not seem to …

… JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of … G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the absence of all … or genome, which underlies physical features and functions. Making connections between the structures and functions …

… benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with … a technique called spatial transcriptomics, to generate maps of gene expression. This spatial transcriptomics …

… Edward Lu and mentor Miguel Romero Sean Saki and mentors  Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Sivagunalan Thamilarasan and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Feng Yu and mentors Zhong Wang and Bryce Foster Irina Birskis Barros and mentors …

… More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, JGI’s Zhong Wang and Science Programs Deputy … Ben Cole, a project scientist in Visel’s Genomics of Plant-Microbial Interactions Group who has mentored several of the …

… Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative … weeks at the DOE JGI, Olmstead saw a few familiar faces, one of them belonged to his research adviser Axel Visel. …