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How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust … tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary …

Kelly Wrighton and her group at Colorado State University in Fort Collins have a massive …

… new members to the JGI User Executive Committee (UEC) : Roland Hatzenpichler of Montana State University, Teresa … of members. Each of the researchers had particular reasons for wanting to serve on the UEC. Hatzenpichler, who studies … to assist JGI in extending its activity-based cell sorting pipelines to further the link between cellular phenotypes …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

Can plants help humans attain a renewable energy future? Can they help lock … using gene editing technology to conscientiously mix traits of different plant species will help us get there. …

Biofuels and bioproducts are a way to kick our addiction to fossil fuels. In this … Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) , a JGI partner and one of the four US Department of Energy Bioenergy Research …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … Northwest National Laboratory; and by a DOE-Biological Environmental Research grant No FWP 61327 to FRC and PL (for …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately … to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in …

Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently … the Genomic Science Program, the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the US Department of Energy (DOE) …

More than 20 UC Merced students have contributed to the research of 13 JGI scientists since the program’s inception. In 2014, … Programs Deputy Axel Visel teamed with University of California (UC), Merced assistant professor Suzanne Sindi from …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … always found among and within poplar trees, and in an effort to understand its influence on the plant, a team of …