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… soil saprotrophs, which degrade plant detritus. Despite the different modes of nutrition, many of these soil fungi have … (form symbiotic relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 … species, such as nutrient transporters, were co-opted into symbiotic functions. Recently published in  Nature …

… orthology/paralogy relationships as well as insights into clade-specific novelties and expansions.  …

… data. JGI proposals typically include multiple projects of different types which can span several years. Projects are …

… matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within … by dry weight than without PM193  . By contrast, using a different endophytic fungus,  Ilyonectria europaea , had no … team also observed that the plants instead put more energy into growth, noting they increased expression of genes …

… world have been forced to confront the awesome power that viruses have to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives.  But for researchers who study viruses that infect organisms much smaller than humans, like … at all.  In fact, even in non-pandemic times such viruses are well known to play major roles in a vast range …

… are located in geographically distinct areas and use different plants both for laboratory research and for …