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… organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among … Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that …

… back for episode 9 of Natural Prodcast. This week, Alison and I talk to Roger Linington, from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, … transcriptomics, metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to … This episode features our conversation with Roger Linington , from Simon Fraser …

… To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … of these enzymes across 90 species. They queried the genomes of 15 species from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … (INRAE). Today, there are nearly 200 mycorrhizal fungal genomes publicly available on the fungal portal MycoCosm, many sequenced through the JGI 1000 Fungal Genomes Project.       Francis Martin on the main impact of …

… tools and data hub for NIH program. While the microbes in, on and around Earth outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, … workflows that allow researchers to easily analyze viral genomes. This includes (i) classifying viruses into groups … the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , 2021), geNomad , a tool for …

… New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the … genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A  new … and their evolution could provide strategies for converting plant waste into sugars for  biofuel production. …

… range of environments. A similar proposal focused on diatom genomes from  Thomas Mock of the University of East Anglia … to crowdsource antimicrobial discovery for the control of plant pathogens, partnering with 600 instructors worldwide who … of Science User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in …

… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … were found in diverse habitats including the air, plant rhizosphere, wastewater, and even animal and human …

… A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the significant role sex plays in how … HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, …

… and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from aerobic … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … compounds may also be involved in how the fungi metabolize plant biomass, which could inform how scientists can more …

… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is … through the publicly available  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database, they successfully … has been no real analysis of protein families from metagenomes per se.”  Recently, other research teams have …

… Biology is currently experiencing a revolution brought on by rapid developments in genomics and other omics technologies.  The exponential growth of DNA sequencing data, coupled with recent … 2014), unearthing hundreds of thousands of new viral genomes and their predicted hosts (Nature 2016, Science …