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… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science … plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act as friends … Fungi in plant roots: friends, enemies or frenemies? …

… Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora … The Impact N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall … used in the biotechnology industry to produce enzymes, proteins, and other chemicals. Summary Filamentous fungi are …

… single-cell and spatial transcriptomics barcode-based genetics (RB-TnSeq), and computational genomics to better … is a dynamic and complex ecosystem that includes bacteria, fungi, viruses. Resident viruses can be found in a myriad of … strains, whereby they can modulate host metabolism, gene expression and phenotype. We have recently identified …

… DNA sequence – sequences for the genes that code for the proteins that produce secondary metabolites. Do you recognize … been shared for a long time by many, many bacteria – and fungi and plants. And so that’s the power and the promise … or an enhancer, an activator, to go ahead and, and synthesize those genes within a model organism like E.coli , and …

… I think for Natural Prodcast, I think the question that generally comes up that people come to me asking like is– … tackle more functional questions. For example, we can synthesize a gene and then figure out what it might be doing … and expertise to do the bioinformatics and to synthesize these results into publication? So there’s this really …

… (median/75th percentile*) DNA Synthesis Constructs <5kb in size Single gene or multiple small genes assembled to less than 5kb in … verified clone 102/NA DNA Synthesis Constructs 5-10kb in size Single gene or multiple small genes assembled totaling … times for projects completed over the previous quarter. In general, projects that do not require any rework will have …

… with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant roots. Plants provide photosynthesized carbon, while fungi deliver water and nutrients. In … interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of the first cross-kingdom …

… 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 … with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of fungi by James et al. and Sekimoto et al . …

… project to form new connections between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether … the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … of multiple forest systems, this work sets up protocols and pipelines that other teams can use around the …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex … recently, O’Malley’s team has begun to understand the outsized role the fungi play in digesting plant material in … that these expressed genes translated into expected proteins. That work was done in collaboration with the …

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