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MARCY : It’s getting bacteria from there. We work on a fungus garden ant as well as the American honeybee. And so I … looked at ants and their symbiotic arrangement with a fungus and bacteria that protect the fungus. And we talked to Marc Chevrette in, I think, episode …

Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it … to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent … mechanisms. The Impact There are over 10,400 species of ferns alive today. Boasting adaptations in order to protect …

… cell free-based expression platforms, tools and data for deciphering regulatory networks, and refining experimental … Escherichia coli and  Streptomyces lysate systems. Deciphering regulatory networks of secondary metabolite …

Cochliobulis heterostrophis . This is a very well known fungus because it produces a secondary metabolite or natural … might get you a little confused as to which species the fungus actually belongs to. I don’t know. It’s really … us, in the laboratory, humans, we started by isolating this fungus by itself or this bacterium by itself. In reality, we …

… that will actually protect the fungal farms from other fungus that want to take advantage of that resource. So in …

… the lab of Cameron Currie. They work primarily within the “fungus growing ant” system where there is a symbiont, a … a cool tripartite situation where the ants are feeding a fungus, they eat the fungus, and that fungus is really susceptible to disease. So …

… poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can … as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among and within poplar trees, … to the tree’s physical traits and gene expression when the fungus is present. The Impact Black cottonwood, or poplar, ( …

… first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more … actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually belonging to the ascomycetes, one of the two … and nitrogen fixers in alpine and high latitude ecosystems, deciphering their internal molecular mechanisms can help …

… susceptible to a fungal infection of rye grain – a specific fungus, Claviceps purpurea, can infect grain. And when it … actually, they discovered that Taxol is also produced by a fungus that happens to grow near this tree and so there was … evolutionary event where the DNA transferred from the fungus into the tree and became incorporated. And because it …