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… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 billion worldwide underscores its value and … from this high impact science for years to come,” said Don Jones, who handles variety improvement for  Cotton …

… Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and … — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, … reproductive, space and genome biology . The undeniable power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why …

… years where he was a driving force behind the development of numerous genomic resources that fostered the widespread adoption of Brachypodium distachyon as an experimental model for the … collaboration with industrial partners, generated hundreds of transgenic switchgrass lines in an effort to create …

… For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA …

… communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … any given time, many species in a community may be in ‘low power mode’, where they do very little.  SIP experiments can … weeks of tricky, laborious lab work to analyze samples from one experiment. Starting a  few years ago, researchers can …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … .  Researchers started by collecting samples from Yellowstone’s hot springs, an extreme environment with low genetic … less biased approach to studying nature. That’s the real power of metagenomics,” Hatzenpichler said. “It’s great to …

… By characterizing the structure and function of a methylthio-alkane reductase system, researchers could … more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of their surroundings. Case in point: for us, the smell of … in the biotechnology innovation ecosystem. “At JGI, we’ve done the synthesis, metagenome mining, all the way from …