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… to assess microbial activity across ecosystems.  By studying microbial communities and their interactions, the …

… other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act … partnerships. To learn more about these other plant-fungal relationships, an international team led by graduate … Francis Martin that contributed toward filling gaps on the fungal Tree of Life through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. …

… colors. I mean, where else in nature– and they’re not fungal. Where else nature can you go see colonies of … just now switching from intermicrobial interactions, studying intermicrobial interactions by imaging interactions … looked at the grant applications for the last 40 years for studying biosynthetic pathways, all of them said that a …

… episode is our conversation with Nancy Keller, a fantastic fungal natural products researcher from the University of … that you are the first person we’ve had on to talk about fungal natural products. I can say that I started in fungal … this, is that I don’t have an awareness of how to go about studying them. Like to me, fungi are, you know, how do you …

… development. Develop an understanding of microbial and fungal metabolism necessary to design communities, new …

… to those who study it) a powerful reference organism for studying photosynthesis and cell motility. It’s also a model … of all kinds,” noted Igor Grigoriev, head of the JGI’s Fungal & Algal Program, including work with Olivier Vallon of the …

… natural products of microbial origin is around 30,000 from fungal, and a 40,000 from bacteria. Okay? And among the … 100,000 bacterial strains, and a hundred thousand fungal strains. And if you believe the prediction that each … of bacterial origin and 3 million natural products of fungal origin. Now, if I put this number in reference to the …

Yeah, so any metabolite, produced by bacterial or fungal metabolism by microbes, will have a functional role. … a very unique on one compound. So cahuitamycin is an antifungal that will actually protect the fungal farms from other fungus that want to take advantage …

… conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced … P.-M.D is supported by the project Engineering Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA) currently funded through a grant …

… hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … Armaleo and colleagues worked with Igor Grigoriev, the Fungal & Algal Program lead at the US Department of Energy (DOE) …

… automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in … of these unique communities. SIP is an effective way of studying these communities. The process involves “labeling” … or hyphae. This region is called the hyphosphere. By studying its microbial communities, scientists can better …