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… genome sequencing of new fungal species.  Students collect fungi, sterilize tissue, isolate genes and more. The …

… Pro Tips for Successful Community Science Program (CSP) Applications Webinar inviting researchers to submit white papers to the CSP  New Investigator call for proposals.  Tips: Contact us … if you have questions about how KBase can support your CSP data. The proposal call is open year-round, but …

… with Christian, I started getting a little bit more into fungi and learning the differences of all the genetic … has been doing work in secondary metabolism. The very first CSP I ever worked on back in Brad’s lab, we talked about it … was the Salinispora genome project. And that was a JGI CSP project. They sequenced that genome for us at a time …

… project manager Miranda Harmon-Smith, who helps shepherd CSP projects along. …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help or harm plant host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with genomes … work was partly enabled by a JGI Community Science Program (CSP) proposal led by INRAE’s Francis Martin that contributed …

… genomic information into biological function. Through our CSP Functional Genomics call , we look for projects that …

… 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 … aims to provide genomic information for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in …

… which, at least at the time, was called Inatreq . It’s a fungicide that is active against Sartoria which is a really … span our core science programs which are microbes, and fungi, and algae plants, synthetic biology. And so we have, … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish symbiotic … with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that feed on decaying plant matter (saprotrophs) have … analysis enables researchers to understand how plants and fungi developed symbiotic relationships, and how the …

… of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able to pry apart plant polymers … use to bust biomass apart. She and her team find these fungi, and their enzymes, primarily in animal poop.  “As an … diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, O’Malley and her team are amassing all kinds of …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex … thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in … their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic fungi, which can …