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… we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great … plant project completed by the JGI. It has since been cited more than 5,400 times, including a number of projects that … a very large and complex genome with lots of repetitions, making it very difficult to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion …

… needs, the JGI deploys state-of-the-art sequencers and platforms dedicated to synthesis, single-cell analyses and metabolomics. At the same time, the team is expanding current capabilities in strain engineering and …

… the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a … could help researchers better understand related genes in more complex plants that could be applied toward …

… DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is triggered when nutrients are acquired from … Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest … carbon from lignocellulosic-abundant matters such as plant litter and to incorporate the assimilated carbon into …

… Outreach at JGI takes many forms: We offer internship opportunities through working … University of California, Merced … Learn more about internship programs we work with:  …

… experiences and what they’ll take with them as they go forward in their careers.   Listed below are the interns, … learned so much in terms of scientific approach and as a plant biologist, I have learned so many techniques and … chambers has been an incredible experience. I feel like a more rounded scientist and I hope to keep in touch with the …

… developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact … by David Weston of Oak Ridge National Laboratory make the case for  sphagnum as “an unparalleled model system for …

… world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for … protect other crops facing similar pathogens. Summary Many plants, sugarcane included, are polyploid and have multiple … image. In contrast, assembling the sugarcane genome was more challenging and took more than a decade because there …

… A mini-episode looking at the efforts of Pankaj Trivedi, whose New Investigator proposal was … Science Program, to use microbiome science to help make plants more resilient to drought. …