June 22, 2023

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A roadmap for gene regulation in plants - A novel approach to synthetic biology could revolutionize how scientists improve plants for bioenergy and agriculture

May 25, 2023

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Helping to build the bioeconomy of California’s northern San Joaquin Valley

April 19, 2023

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Meet the autonomous lab of the future - Robots operate instruments and artificial intelligence makes decisions to find useful new materials at the A-Lab

November 9, 2021

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New technology sees underground to assess crop roots - Berkeley Lab scientists develop an award-winning tool to sense a plant’s hidden half

January 27, 2021

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Fields of breeders’ dreams: A team effort toward targeted crop omprovements - Community effort yields reference switchgrass genome, environmental adaptations data

August 25, 2020

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Some of America’s favorite produce crops may need to get a move on by 2045 - Berkeley Lab study finds warmer California temperatures by mid-century will be too hot for some crops, just right for others

June 9, 2020

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Smart farms of the future: Making bioenergy crops more environmentally friendly - Berkeley Lab launches three new projects to advance sustainable agricultural practices

April 20, 2020

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Picking up threads of cotton genomics - Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages

April 7, 2020

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Making biofuels cheaper by putting plants to work - Berkeley Lab researchers describe how biofuels can achieve cost parity with petroleum fuels

December 3, 2019

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A matchmaker for microbiomes - New tool will enable important insights into the microbial communities in the environment and inside our bodies

October 21, 2019

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Unlocking the biochemical treasure chest within microbes - A new genetic engineering tool will help open the floodgates of microbial metabolite applications

June 24, 2019

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Scientists hit pay dirt with new microbial research technique - A better method for studying microbes in the soil will help scientists understand large-scale environmental cycles

June 20, 2019

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Berkeley Lab celebrates the Integrative Genomics Building

May 17, 2019

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Breakthrough technique for studying gene expression takes root in plants - Berkeley Lab scientists adapt open-source genetic analysis method for use in plant cells for the first time

February 28, 2019

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New molecular blueprint advances our understanding of photosynthesis - Berkeley Lab research will shed light on the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar, helping scientists engineer crops that produce sustainable bioproducts including biofuels

May 30, 2018

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New machine learning approach could accelerate bioengineering - Scientists use technique to automatically predict the amount of biofuel produced by microbes

March 14, 2018

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Digging deep: harnessing the power of soil microbes for more sustainable farming - Berkeley Lab’s ‘farm of the future’ project marries microbiology and machine learning 

March 13, 2018

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Teaching computers to guide science: new machine learning method sees the forests and the trees - Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers say “iterative Random Forests” will deliver powerful scientific insights

July 19, 2017

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DOE Renews Funding for Joint BioEnergy Institute at Berkeley Lab

July 5, 2017

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A whole-genome sequenced rice mutant resource for the study of biofuel feedstocks - JBEI researchers create open-access web portal to accelerate functional genetic research in plants

June 22, 2017

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Researchers find new mechanism for genome regulation

December 20, 2016

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory awarded $4.6 million for transformational agriculture technologies - Two projects will provide a window to the underground, yielding information on roots and soil

July 24, 2015

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Unlocking the rice immune system - Joint BioEnergy Institute study identifies bacterial protein that is key to protecting rice against bacterial blight