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

… The Impact N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall … of sustainable biofuels and bioproducts. Filamentous fungi are also being used in the biotechnology industry to … enzymes, proteins, and other chemicals. Summary Filamentous fungi are like handymen who show up at a job site for a task …

… updateable transcriptome resource spanning diverse plant species. It was developed to improve plant genome … off with 12 plants, which are JGI Flagship Plants, mostly related to biofuels and feedstocks. And then we expanded … plants but not the ammonium. These results highlight differences in plants’ response to nitrate compared to …

… Auer discuss their work on communities of forest floor fungi. Allison Joy looks into seagrass meadows' carbon … research on the symbiotic relationship between mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots.  …

… 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 … for which there were previously no genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and 62 mycorrhizal …

… a future-ready foundation     Over the past billion years, fungi have spread quietly throughout our planet. From the … organisms have diversified into an estimated 2–6 million species — dwarfing the diversity of plants. To put this … their biology by adopting genes from completely unrelated organisms. The scale transforms individual genomes …

… 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 … a mycobiome culture collection consisting of fungal species from natural Arabidopsis populations around Europe. …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The … activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are … is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and …

… Food crops, feed, animal agriculture or aquaculture, and related production systems.  Invasive plant species; and first-generation biofuel targets (i.e. corn, …

… 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 …