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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … candidate bioenergy feedstock crop. In 2018, the JGI had sequenced and assembled the genomes of two varieties of a close relative and model …

… crop and ornamental seeds sold for the upper Midwest are often very different than those bred for Texas. Identifying … and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass  genome using samples …

… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant evolution and adaptation.    Understanding how … to technical limitations and the sheer complexity of plant genomes. Now, with improvements to DNA Affinity Purification … of where those binding sites are in the genome — those sequences are moving around, disappearing and appearing in …

… causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce … yields by as much as 90 percent. As part of the DOE Joint Genome Institute’s  2016 Community Science Program portfolio … JGI Flagship plant genome , and JGI  published its genome sequence in 2010.       …

… climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in common … but other important crops as well. In 2009, the JGI sequenced and analyzed the first reference genome for Sorghum bicolor . Since then, 2,993 publications, 107 patent applications, and 53 patents have …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology and microfluidics at the University of California, San Diego. As the … BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of California, San Diego PhD in Molecular Biology, …