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… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including … from making a bacterial artificial chromosome library to long-read sequencing. On “Antiques Roadshow,” an item’s …

… abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids … lose many genes after such events, returning their genomes to a diploid state while retaining multiple copies of some … correspond to the same recurrent speciation outcome or to different species,” added Catalan. Overall, Vogel noted, the …

… review, project and work order creation and management, automated sequence quality control and automation of microbial/metagenomic assemblies, portals that make data …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa Organization (ICCO), global … cocoa bean production in 2017-2018  was 4.6 million metric tons . The global chocolate brands couldn’t exist without cocoa.  But today the plant is under threat due to climate change and …

… genome sequence of trifoliate orange yields clues to disease-resistance that could prove fruitful for … only bitter, intensely sour fruit. Yet this plant, native to China and now disseminated around the globe, often as a … a UF/IFAS professor of citrus breeding genetics and longtime JGI collaborator, are senior authors of the  recent …

… help researchers track cell development and how they determine identity, as well as the roles played by neighboring … User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). “This represents the largest … which fewer ‘marker’ genes are known that are hallmarks of different cell types.” His contribution to the paper also …

… reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar … With the genetic code of sugarcane, researchers were able to map the location of genes that provide resistance to the …

… studying how plants interact with their environment. Prior to joining the Joint Genome Institute, his focus was primarily on how plants interpret different light cues by altering their growth program, and … Dr. Cole is focusing on how individual plant cells respond to their biotic environment using emerging single-cell …