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… habitat restoration and as a feedstock for biomass-based biofuel production. As seen with many commonly cultivated … genetic variation available for selection to improve biofuel yield through a changing future. Switchgrass has … across the species. These are primarily tetraploids (4X or four copies of the genome) and octoploids (8X or eight …
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… a long time whenever you did a genome sequence, in about 40% of the genome the genes were completely unidentifiable. … That is one of the really big frontiers for the next stage of natural product drug discovery I think. Or even … computational skills among biologists JGI CSP Proposal: Metagenomic mining of natural product diversity and …
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… infect most major food crops and feedstocks for biomass and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution … The work was also supported by the NSF grants DEB-1354625 and IOS-1456958 . Sequencing of Dothideomycetes genomes were …
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… whose biomass can be renewably converted into energy or biofuels. Although a member of the grass family, as its name … capability for growth. While many desirable features of biofuel grasses can be studied from simpler (and smaller) … and Environmental Research under Award Number DE-SC0018420. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …
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… challenges. Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even … in common with certain other cereal crops: It performs C4 photosynthesis, which is the fastest way for plants to … begins. To support growing sorghum and other C4 plants for biofuel production, John Mullet (Texas A & M and Great Lakes …
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