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… You might know sorghum as an edible grain. But there are some sorghum varieties, grown on marginal land with little water, which were developed … sustainable biofuel and bioproducts. John Mullet, a biologist at Texas A&M University, tells us how sorghum’s …

… When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning more about the principles of synthetic … biology, Robert Evans and Jan-Fang Cheng in the Functional Genomics group took it upon themselves to mentor them. …

… Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …

… To engineer yeast to do more, and understand genomes in general, Jef Boeke, Weimin Zhang (NYU Langone Health) and Leslie Mitchell (Neochromosome) have worked … yeast’s native chromosomes with synthetic versions. This project has turned out to be an international …

… Berkeley is responsible for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work focuses on the … utilizing a variety of technologies to improve the JGI’s capabilities in the areas of metagenomics, …

… TBK Reddy gives an overview of the JGI's Genomes OnLine Database and why curated metadata matters. …