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The United States  is the world’s leading soybean producer , and soybeans are used to produce … The fungus  Phakopsora pachyrhizi causes Asian Soybean Rust (ASR) and is the major pathogen of soybean. Left uncontrolled, soybean rust could reduce crop yields by as much …

… reports and tracking statuses.  Please follow the steps outlined below. Click the drop-downs to learn more about each step in the process. If you have any questions, please … for High Molecular Weight DNA extraction and quality control (from PacBio) 2) Review guidelines detailing …

The Fungal & Algal Program explores the vast diversity of fungi and algae to unlock their potential for bioenergy, … program investigates the biological mechanisms that enable fungi and algae to play a vital role in carbon cycling, … feedstock and fungi, as symbionts, pathogens, and biocontrol agents dramatically affect plant health. The  1000 …

I mean you have to secure an agent and there’s all these steps and it’s kind of a mystery of how you get there. And I … that they make? CASSANDRA QUAVE: Yeah, so I mean my path towards natural products and medical ethnobotany really … an antibiotic. ALISON TAKEMURA: And so is that the main thrust of your research now looking through your library …

… the exploration of secondary metabolites across bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These molecules, which are not … reservoir of secondary metabolites produced by bacteria, fungi, algae and plants. These compounds are key to … of cells and allow for substrates to be directed towards secondary metabolite synthesis. We are currently …

… years before joining Warp Drive. And what kind of pushed me towards the secondary metabolism side of things was looking … these molecules in the lab. DAN: And so, taking one more step back chronologically, maybe? I’m pretty confident that … of this system, has been used for a couple decades as a bio control agent. Basically, you put it in a squirt bottle and …

So it was great to hear her passion and enthusiasm for fungi. And we talk a lot about some of the technical … get the credit they deserve. They are so exciting. I get frustrated. Like microbiomes  – you know how that’s a big … for the corn crop, right? It’s been really hard. There’s biocontrol, where people tried to – Well, I don’t know, I’m …

… of University and Research; all specimens collected and fungi isolated are preserved in the Culture Collection of … engineering technologies needed to design, build, and control plants and microbes to produce biofuels, … components into fuels, chemicals, and bioproducts, or to control biological transformation of materials such as …

… in natural products right. There’s many different avenues toward chemistry. But that’s kind of where I had you. How … falls outside of that. And so, for me, I think the next step was thinking about what I wanted to do with cancer. And … to integrate with the metabolomics data. So we’ve got a control and a treatment for example and we get LCMS data for …

… help solve energy and environmental challenges. Maximizing soybean yield is critical to energy independence in the U.S. … that threatens these crops as they grow. Asian Soybean Rust is a major problem. Leaves grow discolored and rust … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). So, …

… in the earlier primers. In bacteria, at least, and in most fungi, biosynthetic gene clusters, which are the genes that … Where did you see that research or those results heading? Toward an application, toward just better understanding … complicated enzymatic conversions. The last couple of steps and the first couple of steps of aflatoxin …

… deliver this molecule – very toxic molecule – to specific disease cells. So, the very first compound was introduced in … penicillin from the fungal species – probably told us that fungi could be very productive sources for, say, biological … of the natural product. So that was my PhD study, and then towards the end of my PhD study, then recombinant DNA …