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Brachypodium genome project on CORDIS

Some grass species play a pivotal role in meeting our food supply needs. We have also seen a surge in the domestication of new grass crops for feedstock production and sustainable energy. Experts say, however, that failure to understand how genes work and a lack of knowledge about their large and complex genomes lead to… [Read More]

Brachypodium project on Huffington Post

In a study published Feb. 11 in the journal Nature, researchers from the department’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, which is managed in part by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, sequenced a form of wild grass in order to derive a genome specifically adapted for biomass and biofuel production. Read more at The Huffington Post.  [Read More]

JGI’s involvement in Human Microbiome Project on GenomeWeb

The center’s Web portal aims to provide researchers with web-based visualization and query applications and software, as well as a robust computational analysis of HMP data. The Website also hosts information on standing operating procedures, a resource for community involvement in reference strain selection, and quality control measures. In order to meet all of the… [Read More]

Brachy genome project on ScienceCentric

Brachypodium is actually a wild annual grass plant, native to the Mediterranean and Middle East, with little agricultural importance and is of no major economic value itself. But it allows researchers to obtain genetic information for grasses much more easily than some of its related, but larger and more complex counterparts with much larger genomes… [Read More]

Brachy genome project on Daily Cal

In a study published Feb. 11 in the journal Nature, researchers from the department’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, which is managed in part by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, sequenced a form of wild grass in order to derive a genome specifically adapted for biomass and biofuel production.  Researchers would then be able to… [Read More]

Brachy genome project on OfficialWire

A British- and U.S.-led international consortium says it has sequenced the first member of the wheat and barley group of grasses. The scientists, led by Britain’s John Innes Center, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University, said the genome sequencing was of the wild grass… [Read More]

Brachy project on USDA-ARS news site

A major stumbling block in using switchgrass or any perennial grass as a biofuel crop is the difficulty in breaking down its cell walls, an essential step in producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass. Brachypodium may hold the key to finding ways to produce plant cell walls that are easy to break down, Vogel said. Vogel… [Read More]

Brachy genome project on Federal Times

Federal researchers have been hard at work trying to develop alternate sources of clean renewable energy, and yesterday they announced a major breakthrough in their efforts. Scientists from the Agriculture Department and the Energy Department’s Joint Genome Institute for the first time have sequenced the genes of a wild grass species. The research, which is… [Read More]

Brachypodium genome project on Farm Futures

USDA scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute say they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass that will enable researchers to shed light on the genetics behind hardier varieties of wheat and improved varieties of biofuel crops. The grass, Brachypodium distachyon, can be used by… [Read More]