Giving Back Lost Enzymes Slows a Brown-Rot Fungus Down
Engineered brown-rot fungi expressing white-rot lignin enzymes regained partial lignin degradation but lost overall lignocellulose-degrading speed.
Tag: fungal evolution
Colletotrichum genomes reveal how fungal pathogens adapt to woody and herbaceous hosts
A genus-wide comparative genomic analysis of 150 Colletotrichum strains reveals how phylogenetic conservation and divergent ecological adaptation have shaped one ...
Full ribosomal operon sequencing finally cracks the family tree of anaerobic gut fungi
Long-read sequencing of the complete ribosomal RNA operon across 156 isolates of anaerobic gut fungi reveals new genetic markers that ...
Medicinal Mushroom’s Mitochondrial Genome Reveals Conserved Core and Dynamic Evolution
The first complete mitochondrial genome of the medicinal mushroom Phellinus tuberculosus reveals a conserved core of respiratory genes alongside repeats ...
Genetic Switch Controls Yeast’s Uni- and Multicellularity
The evolution of multicellularity marks one of the most transformative milestones in the history of life on Earth, representing a ...
70-year-old coffee-killing fungus brought back to life to fight the disease
Researchers have re-animated specimens of a fungus that causes coffee wilt to discover how the disease evolved and how its ...
