Jeremy Schmutz

HudsonAlpha researchers awarded NIH grant to identify genetic contributors to rare diseases...

We live in an ever-changing and growing world. Changing climates, emerging pests,...

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.

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.

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.

In 2018, a Clemson University and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology project was...

A team of scientists, including several from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), created a valuable tool for future improvements in pecan breeding by sequencing the complete genomes of four varieties of the cultivated pecan tree.

HudsonAlpha researchers were part of a multinational team that have been studying the genome of a plant called switchgrass for over a decade. New results from their efforts were published in the journal Nature in January 2021.