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Many fungi have beneficial symbiotic relationships with plants and bacteria; in many instances, fungal physiology is … cyst nematode and the soybean sudden death pathogen. In the genes-to-function focus area, Daniel Kliebenstein from the … Richard Dick of The Ohio State University aims to study plant drought resilience in the Sahel, an arid region of …

… entities that seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are … like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s … By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the cellular level, scientists can better …

… the fungus and alga, either separately or together, on nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also … clonally. Yet its genome revealed that the alga has all the genes needed for meiosis, and thus can rapidly create … The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for the symbiosis, including …

… nutrients from decaying organic matter (saprobes), and many plant pathogens known to infect most major food crops and … and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could provide more insights … clusters showed a >95 % accuracy in correctly predicting plant pathogens (blue) vs saprobes (green). (From Haridas S …

… evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … oxygen and make use of it, it would change the entire landscape of biomass production and bioproduct engineering. … JGI data portals and pipelines helped identify potential genes responsible for lignin deconstruction. (The JGI also …