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… 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 … complex compounds called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has …

… And we’ve done some work with those and have a couple of publications out there on the chemistry. There’s so much … could go down that route.  DAN: So the sun pierces down through the ice pretty well, is that right?  MARCY: It … working on that aspect and it’s quite active against some fungi. But we’re also really interested in distribution. So …

… notes, which you can always find at naturalprodcast.com or through the JGI website at jgi.doe.gov . There’s a lot more … certainly– when we first started caving, we sampled off through these areas. And you can do– with a teaspoon of soil … So this is– for us, that’s dripping water, percolating through the soil through leaf litter and humic acids and …

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

… in. — DAN: So secondary metabolites. I kind of inferred through the stories I told you about geosmin, which is a … bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from fungi, and Taxol from plants. Plants, fungi, bacteria, … biology.  But um, yeah, so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not …

… Paul Jensen and Bill Fenical. And we connected to JGI through the Community Sequencing Program, and they worked … with a group at the Monterey Bay Research Aquarium, through this new NOAA grant, to be able to use their … metabolomics, and natural products in plants, fungi, and microorganisms. If you want to collaborate, let …

… natural chemical compounds that you find in plants, fungi and bacteria, basically all living things. When your … be doing work in this field. So yeah, I thought we’d go through some of some of the background of the science and a … at least before they were ground up into coffee – bacteria, fungi, you know everything. These are shared pathways for …

… 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 order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called arbuscules into a …

… 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 …

… The team identified 15 core genes shared across all fungi, and found that some of these genes have moved from … All of the annotations and data  are publicly available through MycoCosm , the JGI’s web portal for fungal genome … biological systems. By making the tools and data available through MycoCosm — a platform widely used across the …