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… So it was great to hear her passion and enthusiasm for fungi. And we talk a lot about some of the technical … your talk today. It was another great example of probing fungi for natural products and finding new things. And so, … very interested in toxins – phytotoxins – produced by fungi. But the key seminar that tied everything back to the …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes … harmful to plants and can efficiently colonize roots by degrading the plant cell wall component pectin. The results …

… from the ocean. We didn’t know whether to study bacteria, fungi, archaea, the whole range of microbial life. So, we … amassing a collection of marine bacteria. We also studied fungi. We studied a few archaea. But you know, those were …

… Black fungi are microscopic and mighty. They survive everywhere …

… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative … Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to terrestrial habitats. The work is part … aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex … thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in … their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can …

… Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon … research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …