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Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … fungi also, unexpectedly, secrete natural products . Those results showed that these fungi may be able to provide tools … production.    Over time, as these projects have delivered results, they have also snowballed into more collaborations. …

In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … especially relevant to living on a changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an … can up-regulate that CAM. There are all sorts of other intermediate phenotypes where plants are using a little bit of …

… host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends or foes. The Impact … degrade plant cell walls and break down plant sugars. The results also revealed that the most beneficial fungi in root …

… online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach to better understand … diversity is definitely holding a lot of new secrets in terms of functional diversity as well.”  Researchers from …

… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … process called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of … along with 4,355 genomes and 13.6 million genes. The results reveal that fermentative metabolism is seen in a …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team … in the non-flagellated terrestrial fungi were extremely short, suggesting that there were a series of rapid …

Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to … valuable to their careers going forward. Watch this short video (below) to hear more about the summer from their … Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … who don’t engage in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To explore the genomes, … (for the fungus genome) to aid analysis. Many of the results were unexpected. For example, lichenologists …

… yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies …