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… that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team announced in Nature Microbiology an important addition to the synthetic biologist’s toolkit: a technique for c … the amount of DNA that can be inserted at a time. In a project detailed in ACS Synthetic Biology , Yoshikuni and …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI. Two special days occur in April: … i.e. in January. She talked about her Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model … have also harnessed the switchgrass gardens for other projects. At the 2021 JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked …
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Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks … Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … in Sorghum (EPICON) is a five-year, multi-institution project funded by the DOE Office of Biological and …
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