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… Sorghum genome serves as a reference for the highly complex sugarcane … The reference sequence is useful for mapping the genes involved in sugar production and for identifying … crop that very efficiently converts solar energy into plant biomass, which can then be crushed to extract the …

… transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a … clonally. Yet its genome revealed that the alga has all the genes needed for meiosis, and thus can rapidly create … The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for the symbiosis, including …

… which is the fastest way for plants to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugars and oxygen. Both … team collect diverse lines of sorghum to understand what genes exist across the species. Earlier pan-genomes for … sequenced, this line is sweeter, taller, and grows more biomass. In ongoing work, JGI and collaborators are …

… that can’t live without their host. They have no extra genes hanging around, they still dedicate 20-30% of their … with JGI to do genome sequencing, so to look for the genes that are involved in putting antibiotics together, … how biosynthetic gene clusters – those are those suites of genes involved in making antibiotics and secondary …

… over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … minimal resources. Enabling the use of non-arable land for biomass production — that can be converted into biofuels and … and University of Goettingen, this research provides critical insights into the common ancestry of these algae …

… data would enable researchers’ insights on their potential carbon cycling impact.   The Science Enabled by the JGI’s … functional traits in sphagnum growth and decomposition is critical to predicting the ecosystem response to climate … species encode a sulfate reduction pathway, but also have genes for sulfide oxidation. The findings lead them to …

… Do you think that they always cluster or could the genes be separated on a genome?  Dan: Oh yeah. It’s biology … how that molecule is built and you should be able to find genes in the organism in its sequence that encode for that … you did a genome sequence, in about 40% of the genome the genes were completely unidentifiable. You had no idea what …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, … the significant role sex plays in how the moss grows, stores carbon and responds to stress. The Impact Despite …