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Selaginella genome project on redOrbit

Grigoriev noted that the Selaginella genome helps fill in a large gap in plant evolution from the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas, sequenced at the DOE JGI and published in 2007, to flowering plants with vascular systems. “Selaginella occupies a phylogenetically important position for which we had no reference,” he said. “On one end of the… [Read More]

Poplar leaf rust fungal genome project on Hoosier Farmers

Poplar leaf rust can cause significant losses in poplar tree plantations. Poplar is an important crop for the wood industry and is becoming increasingly important to the biofuel industry in the United States and Europe because of its rapid and significant production of biomass. Read more on Hoosier Farmers [Read More]

Selaginella genome project in Western Farm Press

“There are only three families and about 1,000 species of lycophytes remaining. Selaginella has been on Earth about 200 million years,” said Banks, whose findings were published Thursday (May 5) in the journal Science. “This plant is a survivor. It has a really long history and it hasn’t really changed much over time. When you… [Read More]

Selaginella genome project on ScienceBlog

“When you burn coal, you’re burning Selaginella‘s ancestors,” said Purdue University botanist Jody Banks, who originally proposed that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) sequence the plant more commonly known as spikemoss as part of the DOE JGI’s 2005 Community Sequencing Program. Read more on ScienceBlog [Read More]

Poplar rust fungus in comparative genomics study

Rust plant pathogens make up a large fungal group which cannot survive on their own so they use crops as hosts, leading to reduced yields and potentially hindering efforts to grow biomass for fuel. To learn more about these, a 2006 Community Sequencing Program project generated the 101-million base pair genome of the poplar leaf… [Read More]

Selaginella genome project on NPR

Probing the secrets of plants at the genetic level is all the rage these days among scientists seeking to understand how plants evolved on Earth. One of those plants is selaginella, one of the first plants to develop a system of tubes that transport water and nutrients inside a plant. Read more or listen to… [Read More]

Poplar leaf rust genome project in GenomeWeb Daily News

By comparing the genomes to one another and to some previously sequenced fungal pathogens and symbionts, the researchers identified features in the rust fungi genomes that seem to coincide with their pathogenic lifestyles. For instance, they tracked down a slew of genes coding for so-called effectors — small, secreted proteins that help the fungi thwart… [Read More]

Poplar leaf rust genome project on SeedQuest

Sequenced at the DOE JGI using the Sanger platform under the 2006 Community Sequencing Program, the 101-million base pair genome of Melampsora larici-populina, the first tree pathogen sequenced, was made publicly available in 2008. Poplar leaf rust outbreaks weaken poplar trees, a candidate bioenergy feedstock whose genome sequence was published by the DOE JGI in… [Read More]

JGI Science @ the Lesher on Walnut Creek Patch

Most of us don’t even think about the insides of cows, the genes of waterfleas or the behavioral genetics of pollinating bees, but the 250 expert researchers who sequence microbial species—and actually understand the results—also know how to translate heavy duty science into layman’s language. Read more on the Walnut Creek Patch [Read More]

First analysis of Trichoderma species as biocontrol agents

Trichodermaatroviride and T. virens are filamentous fungi commonly found in the soil and are good at protecting crops such as beans, tomatoes, strawberries and cotton against a range of fungal pathogens. Their ability to do so could offer bioenergy crop growers an alternative to chemical pesticide treatment. Both were selected for sequencing by the DOE… [Read More]