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… was the last major crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing … world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, sugarcane accounts for 80% of global sugar production. A reference genome for … In contrast, assembling the sugarcane genome was more challenging and took more than a decade because there were …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. … methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial … cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, their genomes can’t be sequenced using traditional approaches. …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden … Australia but is increasingly farmed in other countries for essential oil production. The recent assembly of two … in nature. As part of a proposal by the DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), the JGI worked on resequencing …

… Berkeley Lab, who discussed the exciting progress in gene editing made possible by CRISPR-Cas9; the Weizmann Institute … genes has helped pave the way for the conception of a pangenome. Recordings and recaps of all three keynote talks … realistically implement. CRISPR-Cas9, Doudna said, may work better and be more cost-effective. “There are still a lot of …

… protocols provided by JGI and the JGI user community below for DNA preparation tools, high molecular-weight DNA … Tips for High Molecular Weight DNA extraction: …

… Knockout experiments showcase potential for engineering bioenergy crops The Science Scientists at Brookhaven … Plants for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … ) was conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE Office …

… material of uncultivated taxa of interest. One such effort is targeted at environmental cells that are from … in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which belong to … genomes are critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for metagenomes studies.  While uncovering the metabolic …

… possible by mining the datasets in the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) suite of tools managed by … has applications across many areas. In particular, gene editing is being used to develop drought, flooding, pest-resistant, and better-yielding crops. On the clinical side, gene editing is …