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… Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, …

… UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to … Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user facility, 24 large-scale proposals have been accepted from 70 full … provide more information on these ecologically relevant species. Another focus area was inter-organismal …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of the terpene synthase gene … revealed the largest number of TPS genes of any currently sequenced plant, a number closely followed by E. globulus . … list of putative genes from C. citriodora to known TPS gene sequences from Eucalyptus species and other plants. The …

… in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are still extant (whereas … genomically the whole complex of progenitors and descendant species and, consequently, the evolution of polyploidy.” … with a maternal  B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million years ago (Mya), while the S plastotype was a more …

… to look at how this enzyme family evolved across 90 species. “One unique thing about this work was our focus on … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and varied.  …

… Genome Initiative. Brassicales is represented by more than 4,700 species, and the proposal focuses on investigating the … to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then …

… access to cutting-edge cell sorting, DNA amplification, and sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated … now uses laser microdissection to selectively isolate and sequence microbial aggregates after first imaging with …

… yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae , allowing this species to grow better than its closest relative S. … then used a series of random insertions of a foreign DNA sequence to generate a huge pool of mutants, each containing … had their DNA sequenced at the JGI as part of a 2014 Community Science Program project. The results revealed …