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… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including …

… April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April … and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science … living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  Susannah …

… Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium …

… Every fall, a mysterious green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A … of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy or biofuels. Although a member … This work was supported by the Energy Biosciences Institute and the DOE …

… Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are … in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of …

… Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are …