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… fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a … relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing … for which there were previously no genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal …

… in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are still extant (whereas … genomically the whole complex of progenitors and descendant species and, consequently, the evolution of polyploidy.” … these datasets, researchers made a pan-genome containing four  B. hybridum  genomes and many  B. distachyon genomes. …

Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is … ) and wild ( G. mustelinum, G. tomentosum, G. darwinii ) species. (Z. Jeffrey Chen, John T. Lovell and Avinash …

… impressive environmental and energy advantages explain why soybean is a flagship genome of the JGI’s Plant Program. … gasoline. Yet.  In 2010, soybean became the first legume species with a published complete draft genome sequence. At the time, the vital global source of both …

… with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the … comprise a full third of each moss genome, and are almost four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the …

JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters … letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters represents an organism’s genetic code, or … the binding location for most transcription factors in a species,” O’Malley said. “It’s a unique capability; no one …

… hills and valleys, on a smaller scale. Depending on the species, some sphagnum may prefer the dryer, more elevated … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team … and others that preferred the hollows. Those genome sequences showed not only that the sex of a sphagnum plant …