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Poplar leaf rust fungal genome project on Hoosier Farmers

Poplar leaf rust can cause significant losses in poplar tree plantations. Poplar is an important crop for the wood industry and is becoming increasingly important to the biofuel industry in the United States and Europe because of its rapid and significant production of biomass. Read more on Hoosier Farmers [Read More]

Poplar rust fungus in comparative genomics study

Rust plant pathogens make up a large fungal group which cannot survive on their own so they use crops as hosts, leading to reduced yields and potentially hindering efforts to grow biomass for fuel. To learn more about these, a 2006 Community Sequencing Program project generated the 101-million base pair genome of the poplar leaf… [Read More]

Poplar leaf rust genome project in GenomeWeb Daily News

By comparing the genomes to one another and to some previously sequenced fungal pathogens and symbionts, the researchers identified features in the rust fungi genomes that seem to coincide with their pathogenic lifestyles. For instance, they tracked down a slew of genes coding for so-called effectors — small, secreted proteins that help the fungi thwart… [Read More]

Poplar leaf rust genome project on SeedQuest

Sequenced at the DOE JGI using the Sanger platform under the 2006 Community Sequencing Program, the 101-million base pair genome of Melampsora larici-populina, the first tree pathogen sequenced, was made publicly available in 2008. Poplar leaf rust outbreaks weaken poplar trees, a candidate bioenergy feedstock whose genome sequence was published by the DOE JGI in… [Read More]

Comparative genomics of social amoebae

Found in soils worldwide, slime molds such as Dictyosteliumdiscoideumare perhaps best known by their behaviors in the presence or absence of food. When food is plentiful, the social amoeba behave as individuals, but when food is scarce, they come together to form multicellular “fruiting bodies” that look like a flower bud atop a single stalk… [Read More]

First analysis of Trichoderma species as biocontrol agents

Trichodermaatroviride and T. virens are filamentous fungi commonly found in the soil and are good at protecting crops such as beans, tomatoes, strawberries and cotton against a range of fungal pathogens. Their ability to do so could offer bioenergy crop growers an alternative to chemical pesticide treatment. Both were selected for sequencing by the DOE… [Read More]

Toward a Genomic Encyclopedia of Fungi

Fungi are key components of terrestrial ecosystems and help maintain the interactions between a myriad of species of animals, plants and bacteria that make up these environments. With the ability to thrive in a wide variety of ecological niches, fungi are essential to the global carbon cycle, and the enzymes and metabolites they produce are… [Read More]

100 Rhizobium Genomes Project on INRA’s MyCorWeb page

A joint venture has been established between the Centre for Rhizobium Studies (CRS) led by Dr Wayne Reeve at Murdoch University (Australia) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI, USA) led by the Head of the Microbial Program Dr Nikos Kyrpides to completely decipher the genetic code for 100 geographically distinct root nodule rhizobial strains.’ Read more on the… [Read More]

Spanish fungal pipeline project part of CSP 2011 portfolio

The project being coordinated by Mr Pisabarro focuses on a dozen fungi and has a very concrete objective: “We know what genes there are in each fungus, but we do not know how they use them. We asked ourselves how the various fungi employed the arms they have in order to degrade wood and we… [Read More]

Chlorella for the carbon cycle and biodiesel production

Green algae are key components of the global carbon cycle and help sequester half of the carbon in the atmosphere. From a bioenergy perspective, algae are increasingly viewed as a viable feedstock for biofuel and biodiesel production because of their high lipid content. However, algal viruses can infect up to a fifth of all algae… [Read More]