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A JGI Collaboration to Improve Plant Genome Annotations

September 1, 2023

A tiled collage of square photos of different plants - soybeans, and sorghum, for example.

To provide broad plant genomic capabilities, the DOE Joint Genome Institute works in partnership with the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led a team that recently published work on the JGI Plant Gene Atlas in Nucleic Acids Research. Learn more on the JGI website.

The JGI Fuels Discovery in Sphagnum Sex Chromosomes

April 7, 2023

Image featuring S. divinum (red) and S. angustifolium (green)]

In Nature Plants, the JGI helped drive the discovery into the role sphagnum’s sex chromosomes play in carbon sequestration.

JGI Reveals DNA Thievery in Ferns

October 27, 2022

a green fern against a black background

The undeniable power of plants, and the lessons they can teach us, are why the JGI took on the Open Green Genome Initiative in 2018 as part of its Community Science Program. A recent paper published in Nature Communications on Ceratopteris richardii marks the first published manuscript of a genome sequence generated through the OGG and solves an ongoing mystery in ferns.

JGI, JBEI Part of Switchgrass Reference Genome Effort

January 27, 2021

Aerial photo of the switchgrass diversity panel late in the 2020 season at the Kellogg Biological Station in Michigan. (Robert Goodwin)

In Nature, a team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and DOE Joint Genome Institute  has produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass genome. Building off this work, researchers at all four DOE Bioenergy Research Centers—the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, the Center for … Read more »

JGI Helps Find Shattering Gene in Wild Setaria Populations

October 5, 2020

Green millet plants growing at the Danforth Center. (Bruton Stroube/ Donald Danforth Plant Science Center)

Innumerable road trips to collect hundreds of weedy green millet (Setaria viridis) plants have resulted in a Nature Biotechnology paper from researchers at the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the Danforth Center and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. The team generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high quality reference S. viridis genome sequence. Analysis of these plant genome sequences also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. Learn more here on the JGI website

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