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… 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 … In a recent Scientific Advances article , a team led by McDaniel and his former graduate student Sarah Carey, now …
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… the natural world’s potential to address global challenges by exploring plants’ role in capturing carbon, detoxifying … supports the development of next-generation biofuels by studying perennial grasses and fast-growing trees as … manipulation in the laboratory. Both germplasm (sequenced mutants and natural accessions) and protocols …
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… warmer waters, including the tropics, tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined nucleus). … than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … After isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the …
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As reported January 27, 2021 in Nature , the team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, … (Berkeley Lab), has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome using samples … many parts of the country also helped the team understand why some switchgrass plants from the Northeast have traits …
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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 … field, growers can easily distinguish the cotton species by traits such as flower color, plant height, or fiber …
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… nine countries. Learn more about the Hungate1000 work led by AgResearch collaborators Bill Kelly and Sinead Leahy and … to provide a cataloged and curated culture and genome sequence resource of rumen microorganisms . Thanks to the … rumen microbes are awesome and this is just another example why.” …
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