The Hyphal Tip

The FGI and the Broad Institute have released the 7X genome assembly of Puccinia graminis f. sp tritici in roughly 4500 contigs. This represents the first rust fungus to be sequenced.

Sally Otto and colleagues have identified that populations of laboratory yeast strains convereged on diploidy in this study. This is nicely consistent with the observation that most wild strains isolated from the environment are diploid.