Consumers will now be able to purchase the first ever beer brewed from Alabama-grown barley malt thanks to a state-wide project. The collaboration included experts from HudsonAlpha, Auburn University, and Alabama A&M University, and met an exciting milestone today as Braided River Brewing Company in Mobile released a new beer containing barley malt sourced in Alabama.
Read MoreHudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, along with several regional collaborators, was awarded $1 million from the US National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program. They are among the more than 40 unique teams to receive one of the first-ever NSF Engines Development Awards, which aim to help partners collaborate and create economic, societal, and technological opportunities for their regions.
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Researchers at Duke University, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory were part of a team that identified sex chromosomes in Sphagnum moss species. Since the sex of peat bog mosses alters carbon storage dynamics, this information could help protect Sphagnum and reduce the likelihood of peat bogs becoming major carbon sources.
Read MoreHudsonAlpha researchers were part of a team that sequenced the first full-length...
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In their new study, the collaborative team led by researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the University of Texas at Austin set out to investigate the effects of variation in polyploidy level on switchgrass climate adaptation by comparing the genetic diversity, environmental niche, and fitness responses across climate gradients between tetraploid and octoploid switchgrass.
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In 2018, a Clemson University and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology project was...
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