plant biology
Greening the University
submitted by: jgrosvenor
The need for sustainability within the university has been apparent for some while now; however it is only recently that this need has been seriously addressed in campus planning. This paper investigates the various approaches to sustainable practices within the university, and further examines the specific challenges and obstacles to the implementation of these practices. Also explored is the new type of collaboration between the sustainability institute and campus planning departments...
Matteo Pellegrini on "Annotation of Plant Genomes using RNA-seq Data"
submitted by: JGI
Matteo Pellegrini from University of California, Los Angeles presents at the JGI/Argonne HPC Workshop on January 25, 2010.
Early Agriculture Left Traces in Animal Bones
submitted by: johnstrom
Unraveling the origins of agriculture in different regions around the globe has been a challenge for archeologists. Now researchers from the Carnegie Institution and other organizations writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences report finding evidence of early human experiments with grain cultivation in East Asia. They gathered this information from an unlikely source―dog and pig bones.