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I'll have the truffles and huitlacoche

A couple of papers should have captured your attention lately in the realm of fungal genomics.

One is the publication of the genome of the black truffle Tuber melanosporum. This appears as an advanced publication at Nature (OA by virtue of Nature’s agreement on genome papers) along with a NYT writeup and is a tasty exploration of [...]

DuPont donates genome sequence of maize pathogen

DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred has donated the genome sequence of the Sordariomycete Colletotrichum graminicola into the public domain by depositing the sequence in GenBank.  The FGI through the Broad Institute are also sequencing a strain of C. graminicola (teleomorph Glomerella graminicola) [...]