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… world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for the … of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that … at CIRAD was supported by the International Consortium for Sugarcane Biotechnology. The work at the Institute of …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … and analysis of their data at the time. Following the publication of their paper in 2011, Dr. Sekimoto from …

… viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and … in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office … & Microbiomes (IMG/M) data suite—which includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able …

… 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 … global viral diversity. geNomad has already been downloaded thousands of times, receiving excellent feedback from the … Exascale Computing Project (17-SC-20-SC), a collaborative effort of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer … provides the only known reference microbiome data sets for the Loxahatchee Refuge,  was published in the journal  …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been … and more complex patterns of inheritance. The additional genes provided by these chromosomes can contribute to novel …

… still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have … to make products such as proteins, and the mechanisms for maintenance to keep processes running smoothly. As … senior authors. “But this has been done most commonly in bacterial-based systems, and so one of the things that I …

… fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years and one of the world’s largest … used for systemic orthology to enable use for both cacao functional biology and breeding.     … address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit  …