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… Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which … plant resilience and productivity. The algal genomes sequences are available on the JGI’s  PhycoCosm portal. …

… work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, … could help protect other crops facing similar pathogens. Summary Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing … thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence from just a few pieces of DNA. Summary The extreme … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome …

… Clarivate Analytics, formerly the IP & Science arm of Thomson Reuters, has released their 2019 list of Highly Cited … Academy of Sciences, the team established community gardens of switchgrass plants in 10 different field sites on a … Nature Genetics, the work is part of a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 …

… Office of Science user facility, Keedrian Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate student in the Quantitative … weeks at the DOE JGI, Olmstead saw a few familiar faces, one of them belonged to his research adviser Axel Visel. …

… DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … increased the number of known high quality virophage genome sequences 10-fold through computational approaches. By … they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over 28,000 unique MCP sequences.  …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. Identifying and … of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) directly from sequenced environmental samples without needing to cultivate …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( … protect maize by fending off fungal and microbial infections. Scientists had assumed that maize synthesizes these … called terpenes. Terpenes are important in plant growth, defense, and environmental interactions, and also have …

…   Registration has closed   Registration fees: Regular attendees  (LBNL … metabolic and functional capabilities. Take part in the "Sequences to Cultures" Jamboree!  Immediately following the … new bacteria and archaea revealed by a recent genome census . A key outcome will be a a compelling position paper, …

… Jan. 7: New Capabilities to Study Secondary Metabolism   Although there are still a large number … metabolic capabilities is often tedious and resource intensive. This is often due to, for example, tight regulation … expressing a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There are over 10,400 species of … richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG. For a long time, C-fern …

… make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science … and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …