Sentences with phrase «of plant genomes for»

These small, mobile and virus - like DNA elements have been a part of plant genomes for millions of years and most of the time they lie dormant and do no harm.

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The platform is used for everything from analyzing seismic data to find promising places to drill for oil to looking at plant genomes in search of new hybrids.

Selection for this suite of traits leaves a mark on the plant's genome by the reduction of genetic diversity in the areas that code for these traits.

The resulting backcrossed plants and information about their genomes, «shows a way forward for improving chickpeas and many other crops too,» says von Wettberg, a professor in UVM's Department of Plant and Soil Science.

The new method by Garaycochea and colleagues will enable researchers to strategically analyze this whole - genome sequence data and assemble the chloroplast genome for their plant of interest.

As for the identities of Mendel's other four genes, Weeden says he expects them to be revealed in the next few years as more plant genomes give up their sequences.

For a plant to create reproductive cells, it must first erase a key code, a series of tags attached to DNA across the genome known as epigenetic marks.

«Studying the genome of water - efficient plants may also provide insights into a plant's ability to use slightly saline water and maintain growth under higher temperature and lower clean water availability,» said Jerry Tuskan, coauthor and chief executive officer of the Center for Bioenergy Innovation led by ORNL.

Also online, an interactive feature including informational graphics, video clips, and more, as well as accompanying Web resources, explore how plant genome research is contributing to our understanding of plant biology and evolution and leading to tangible benefits for society.

He is typical of plant - genome scientists, whose work often combines a passion for understanding their subjects» inner workings with a belief that their findings will help counter some of humanity's most urgent problems: hunger and malnutrition, the demand for renewable energy, and climate change.

To use CallHap, researchers must first obtain a reference genome sequence for their target species, either from previously published work or by sequencing the DNA of a single plant.

Over the longer term, the identification of the coffee tree genome sequence opens up new possibilities for varietal improvement, knowledge of the specific functions of the genes (in particular those specific to coffee trees), the possibility of transferring results to other species, and refining diagnostic tools for the function of the plant.

Researchers looked for regions of each plant's genome that showed unusual patterns of variation consistent with past selective breeding acting on the VRN - D4 gene.

The authors then combined the new genomes with thousands of publicly available genomes that represent the major groups of plant - associated bacteria, and included bacteria from multiple plant and non-plant environments, such as the human gut, for comparison.

As scientists race to decode genomes — not just of humans but of bacteria, yeast, chimps, dogs, whales and plants — the number of DNA sequences available for analysis has grown 40,000-fold in the past 20 years, providing unprecedented insight into billions of years of species evolution.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

«Each of these 10 genomes encodes for a unique composition of CAZymes — and the wider assortment helps formulate enzyme cocktails better suited for different types of plant biomass to efficiently convert them into biofuels,» Grigoriev said.

On 20 December 2013, a paper by the Amborella Genome Sequencing Project that includes a full description of the analyses performed by the project, as well as implications for flowering plant research, will be published in the journal Science.

Many crop plants contain genomes that are hundreds or tens of thousands times larger: wheat, for example, has an estimated 15 billion base pairs.

«Because of Amborella's pivotal phylogenetic position, it is an evolutionary reference genome that allows us to better understand genome changes in those flowering plants that evolved later, including genome evolution of our many crop plants — hence, it will be essential for crop improvement,» stressed Doug Soltis of the University of Florida.

A genetic analysis, which included sequencing the entire genome of Cephalotus, found strong evidence that during their evolution into carnivores, each of these plants co-opted many of the same ancient proteins to create enzymes for digesting prey.

First, samples of leaves from these plants are collected for in vitro cultures to isolate the fungi; then the DNA and RNA of fungi are extracted to sequence them and, through bioinformatic analysis, the researcher can determine the expression, the presence or absence of genes in the genomes of a species against each other.

«Setaria viridis is a small plant that can produce a lot of seeds faster, has a pretty simple genome and can serve as a model for research.»

Still - unfunded plan would start with all plants, animals, and other eukaryotes — some 1.5 million species — for the cost of the original human genome project

The discovery, the product of a multiyear effort to provide a high - quality full genome map of the oil palm plant and to scour the sequence for genes of importance to both science and industry, has major implications for agriculture and the environment.

Of the three cell wall components, lignin is the most troublesome for the biofuel industry because it limits the extraction of cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuel production, according to Siobhan Brady, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center at UC Davis and a co-author of the studOf the three cell wall components, lignin is the most troublesome for the biofuel industry because it limits the extraction of cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuel production, according to Siobhan Brady, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center at UC Davis and a co-author of the studof cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuel production, according to Siobhan Brady, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center at UC Davis and a co-author of the studof Plant Biology and Genome Center at UC Davis and a co-author of the studof the study.

the new information enabled the researchers to clarify aspects of the barley genome that are important in the context of genome evolution and for practical use of genome knowledge by plant breeders and basic researchers — namely, the locations of gene - rich regions including some that have low recombination

Scientists can readily obtain extensive genetic information for any plant species of interest, at a relatively low cost, rapidly accelerating the pace of genome sequencing.

Nosil and his colleagues sequenced the genomes of dozens of individuals of each ecotype from multiple hillsides to assess the genetic differences that arose to make them specialized for their particular host plant.

His development of a method for stable transformation of land plant chloroplast genomes, once thought to be impossible, established the field of chloroplast genome engineering in higher plants and has led to an explosion of research concerning the chloroplast genome's role in photosynthesis, functional analysis of plastid genes by reverse genetics, and mechanisms of plastid gene regulation.

Support for the undergraduate intern program comes from the National Science Foundation through the Plant Genome Research Program grant awarded to Professor Georg Jander of BTI and Professor Jian Hua of Cornell University.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the whitefly (Bemisia tabici), an invasive insect responsible for spreading plant viruses worldwide, causing billions of dollars in crop losses each year.

BTI's Plant Genome Research Program hosted 29 undergraduate and high school students for a summer of hands - on lab work, bioinformatics training, and mentoring by scientists at BTI, Cornell University and the USDA Holley Center.

For the first time, we can rapidly and inexpensively view and understand the function of entire genomes belonging to wild animals, plants and microbes.

We've made it possible for any researcher to get a high - quality genome assembly for their plant or animal of interest.

We focus on developing computational methods and tools for (a) analyzing large - scale gene expression data related to human cancer in search for gene markers and disease sub-categories, (b) identifying regulatory elements such as miRNA precursors and their targets in whole genomes of plants and mammals, (c) building theoretical models of gene regulatory networks.

Manuel J. Torres, Ph.D., Volunteer Dr. Torres was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory in The Center for Applied Genetic Technologies at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA..

The hallways of Boyce Thompson Institute will be a little quieter this week, as more than a dozen researchers escape the Ithaca winter by flying to San Diego for the 24th Plant & Animal Genome Meeting (PAG).

His research interest focuses on 1) development and application of TALEN and CRISPR technologies for targeted genome editing in plant species, and 2) molecular mechanism of plant / microbe interactions and crop disease resistance engineering by using the bacterial blight of rice as a model.

The government of Alberta and private funders have given C$ 25.2 million ($ 22.1 million) to two new research programs that will study genomics to discover new ways to use microbes in energy production and new uses for plants in medicine and in industry, Genome Alberta said today...

The human genome has also contributed to sequencing and even modifying the genomes of plants and animals humans rely on for food.

The microbe is particularly well suited for testing the functions of individual plant genes because bacterial DNA disrupts the genome at the point of insertion.

The sequencing of the tomato genome has implications for other plant species.

Now that the genome sequence of one variety of tomato is known, it will also be easier and much less expensive for seed companies and plant breeders to sequence other varieties for research and development, he added.

«Riding» different lines in the DNA Subway, users can predict and annotate genes in up to 100,000 base pairs of DNA (Red Line), and prospect entire plant genomes for specific genes (Yellow Line).

The short generation time and relatively compact genome of Arabidopsis make it an ideal model system for understanding numerous features of plant biology, including ones that are of great pharmaceutical or agricultural value.

Now, researchers involved in an international effort to sequence the entire genome of Arabidopsis have obtained - for the first time - the complete DNA sequence of chromosomes from a plant species.

I harness these technological advancements to assemble genomes for a variety of organisms and probe the genetic basis of neurological disorders, including autism and schizophrenia, better understand cancer progression and understand the complex structures of the genomes of higher plants.

The HapMap, a shorthand for haplotype map, gauges diversity in the maize genome by comparing 27 distinct genetic lines of the plant with the reference version.

CSHL's Rob Martienssen and W. Richard McCombie help to develop a genome «tree of life,» the largest yet for seed plants