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Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex …
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In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and more. And …
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For the past 13 years, Mr. Schmutz has directed the JGI Plant Program, focusing on the organization of community driven science for JGI Plant Flagship Genomes and DOE relevant cellulosic … In addition to continuing to develop strategies for plant genome sequencing, he manages the de novo plant …
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… we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I recently caught up with Karolina at the Plant and Animal Genomes, or PAG conference, when in-person … with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This metabolism, called crassulacean acid …
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To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute … Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha … led a team that recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in Nucleic Acids Research . The project …
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Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics program. Prior to this, he served … for Science where he studied the molecular basis of a plant host’s susceptibility to pathogens. Dr. Vogel’s current research is focused on …
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… and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including lignin, cellulose and … This first paper integrating multi-omics data from this JGI fungal ENCODE proposal was recently published in the … for multiple models and their close relatives across the fungal tree of life, enriching the work being done as part …
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