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… poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, … to the tree’s physical traits and gene expression when the fungus is present. The Impact Black cottonwood, or poplar, ( …

… susceptible to a fungal infection of rye grain – a specific fungus, Claviceps purpurea, can infect grain. And when it … actually, they discovered that Taxol is also produced by a fungus that happens to grow near this tree and so there was … evolutionary event where the DNA transferred from the fungus into the tree and became incorporated. And because it …

… the same sorts of things. And then, bacteria often live in symbiosis with plants and might actually be producing … same kind of way, where we had– aflatoxin is produced by a fungus called Aspergillus . We were mostly working in …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The Science A team led by … and model gene regulatory pathways used by the filamentous fungus  Neurospora crassa, and to identify and decide on the order in which this fungus breaks down plant cell wall materials including …