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… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This project received funding from the European Research Council under the European …

… diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the Danforth Plant Science Center (Danforth Center) drove up and down the … are genes out there that affect this phenotype.’”  Results from A “Massive Amount” of Sequencing  Seed dispersal is …

Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on … language processing techniques to categorize genetic information. Learn more about their work here in a series of videos produced by JGI Communications & Outreach intern …

Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science … of how plants adapted to terrestrial life paves the way for innovations in sustainable agriculture and clean energy. … the ability to adapt to different environments were deeply rooted in the common ancestor of algae and land plants. The …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a model grass system for answers. Their work  recently appeared in  Nature …

… an internship program to bring students to the JGI for research training experience. Enabled by the DOE RENEW … Vogel on researching the effects of Brachypodium distachyon plant root exudates on the plant microbiome. They also took part …

… nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the … Lab), has generated a more accurate phylogenetic tree tracking the evolution of  Dothideomycetes fungi. The  work …

… relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US … we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … KAROLINA:  We all know plants take up water through their roots. But for them to be able to pull that water through …

… components of JGI’s production workflow, and is responsible for the annotation and analysis of (meta)genomic, (meta)transcriptomic, and functional genomic … species specificity of single cells and genomes extracted from metagenomes, and also as a metric for quality control …