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… Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global … Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has now sequenced and assembled the genomes of these five cotton … insights on crop improvements at a genetic level, including why having multiple copies of their genomes (polyploidy) is …

… Highlighting the latest interactive version of the JGI’s plant data portal. On … Questions about the transition from Phytozome v12 to v13. Why is it necessary to retire Phytozome v12? The codebase … preset for the gene in question, so you can download sequences, annotations, and gene structures. These genomes’ …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after … which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

… 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 sequence to the public data repositories over its now … us feedback and to help us calibrate progress toward our near- and long-term goals. And, by the way, as far as …

… Accepted proposals emphasize JGI interests in algae and … to as natural products, the proposal includes plans to sequence several thousand Actinobacteria strains and then … through photosynthesis, but only a fraction have been sequenced.  Adriana Lopes dos Santos from Singapore’s …

… This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii … 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 …

… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to … to climate change and devastating fungal infections. That’s why Mars, Inc., a maker of chocolate for more than 100 years … through the Cacao Genome Database project. The genome sequence was assembled by the plant team at the  HudsonAlpha …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science … with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 …