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Entries from July 2008

A word about databases

Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment

Logo for fungal GenomesReport concludes that a fungal genome database is of "the highest priority".

This is the title as listed in PubMed for this article from Future Medicine about the AAM report on charting future needs and avenues of research on the fungal kingdom.

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Cochliobolus genome released

Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · 1 Comment

Just noticed that the [[JGI]] has released the Cochliobolus heterostrophus genome sequence at their site predicting 9,633 protein-coding genes.  Torrey Mesa Research Institute had access to a sequence many years ago, but it isn't until now that public version of this genome is available.  Cochliobolus is has been a model plant pathogen system and its production of T-Toxin by a PKS gene (Yang et al)

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Time lapse Coprinopsis growth

Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · No Comments

coprinus comatus ink from Cornell Mushroom Blog

The Cornell Mushroom Blog has an excellent video of Coprinopsis growing and some discussion about these mushrooms.

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Basidiomycete Research Networks

Posted on July 14th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · No Comments

Mike Challen has summarized discussion at two recent conferences regarding a Basidiomycete Research Network at his blog in a post on BRN - Summary of Discussions, 14/07/08.

In particular it is important to establish a community network that will help basidiomycete labs. There is also a strong need for shared approaches for effective use the genomic data from the more than a dozen basidiomycete genomes currently being sequenced.

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AAM Releases “The Fungal Kingdom” Report

Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Jason Stajich · 2 Comments

AAM The Fungal Kindgom Report CoverThe American Academy of Microbiology has released a report (PDF) on the Fungal Kingdom outlining importance of research in the kingdom and recommending several areas of priority for future areas of research.

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