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… in the earlier primers. In bacteria, at least, and in most fungi, biosynthetic gene clusters, which are the genes that … oxidative conversions and do some really complicated carbon skeleton rearrangements, chemistry that we probably … the time, at least the ones we know about, are clustered in fungi. Plants are a different story and much more …

… 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 …

… 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 … how mycorrhizal fungi play an integral role in soil carbon storage. Summary There are three types of fungal …

… participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two main branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the … transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a …

… Santa Barbara discuss the importance of studying anaerobic fungi, as well as a recent discovery that turns scientific …

… and analysis tools for comparative genomics of fungi. Mycocosm enables users to navigate across sequenced … and to conduct comparative and genome-centric analyses of fungi and community annotation. …

… 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 from other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that …