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… beautiful properties of their silica shells. But what genes are responsible for such mesmerizing exteriors? …

… contains about 6% of the human genome . They discovered genes linked to conditions such as cardiovascular disease, … about 2% of the human genome. They were interested in genes involved in repair of DNA damage, and those associated … 3% of the human genome. They wanted to learn about the genes implicated in the development of breast and prostate …

… traits — height, biomass, hardiness to cold, etc. — to its genes. The undertaking took shovels, trucks — and more than …

… they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …

… 2007, the JGI has been working on identifying switchgrass genes related to biomass production, drought tolerance, and … data portal Phytozome. The combination of field data and genetic information has allowed the research team to … Switchgrass has a large polyploid genome, which means most genes are found as multiple copies across the chromosomes. …

… each variety stores sugars and sequesters carbon. 2015: Epigenetic Control of Drought Tolerance in Sorghum (EPICON) … over 50 other diverse sorghum genomes. Deep sequencing and genetic linkage analysis improve the genome’s accuracy, and … team collect diverse lines of sorghum to understand what genes exist across the species. Earlier pan-genomes for …

… This year’s annual CSP call had five areas of emphasis: genes to function, plant and algal functional genomics, …

… annotating and analyzing the genome in order to find the genetic traits responsible for  P. trifoliata ’s hardiness, … Fred Gmitter, a UF/IFAS professor of citrus breeding genetics and longtime JGI collaborator, are senior authors … Journal.  this study included the discovery of candidate genes that confer resistance to citrus greening disease. …

… conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and archaea. Many of the samples shared a high prevalence of genes involved in sulfur and nitrogen metabolism, as well as …

… carbon captured from the atmosphere in a process that generates energy. The MPI team ultimately aims to develop an … Functional Genomics call, the JGI synthesized library of genes that code for Enoyl-CoA Carboxylase/Reductase (ECR) … in a cell, from capturing and fixing carbon dioxide to generate multi-carbon compounds through a light-driven …

… resource that provides information at multiple scales from genes to the community level. The Impact Rivers are … sampling locations. Metatranscriptomic information was also generated. The 3.8 trillion bases or Terabases of sequencing …

… lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help … was discovered with proteomic analyses. The species harbors genes encoding SPEARE proteins—which contain  s erine  p …