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… food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project aims to change that. …

… 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome Institute with Dan Rokhsar, who also holds a joint … with: Until they came up with this new method, Session mentioned that the analysis for determining the evolutionary history of strawberries wasn’t completely accurate. “They took every single gene from …

… aren’t interested in waiting decades to develop new crops. One example is an ongoing collaborative effort to improve … and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … plants outside of their native habitat or cold hardiness zones, they have different levels of performance,” Juenger …

… address of the 2023 JGI Annual Meeting. As the JGI’s Metagenome Science Program Head, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, introduced … that the ambiguity was exactly her point. “Things have one or another function that completely depends on the context and oftentimes a single …

… I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … to deal with hot and dry conditions could help us to one day develop plants that are more drought-tolerant. These … That’s what might happen for a stressed typical plant, one that does what’s called C3 metabolism, named for a …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, cumulatively called … with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …