A5032006501- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Fungal Biology and Applications
- Hemiptera Insect Studies
- Insect Resistance and Genetics
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2017-2023
Madison Group (United States)
2023
New York Law School
2022
New York University
2022
Significance Fungi move between habitats by dispersing small spores through the atmosphere. We ask what causes some species to release at a specific time every day versus irregularly. find that timing of spore dictates how long remain in atmosphere before returning ground: Spores released night are likely travel for hours while during may linger days. Drivers stronger lower, warmer latitudes. Because open die from prolonged exposure light and air, will impact survival. have discovered...
Abstract Phylogenomic approaches have the potential to improve confidence about inter-relationships of species in order Mucorales within fungal tree life. Rhizopus are especially important as plant and animal pathogens bioindustrial fermenters for food metabolite production. A dataset 192 orthologous genes was used construct a phylogenetic 21 strains, classified into four isolated from habitats industrial, medical environmental importance. The phylogeny indicates that genus consists three...
Fair and equitable benefit sharing of genetic resources is an expectation the Nagoya Protocol. Although Protocol does not yet formally apply to Digital Sequence Information ("DSI"), discussions are currently underway regarding include such data through ongoing Convention on Biological Diversity ("CBD") negotiations. While Indigenous Peoples Local Communities ("IPLC") expect value generated from genomic be subject arrangements, a range views being expressed by Nation States, IPLC other...
Abstract Canonical sexual reproduction among basidiomycete fungi involves the fusion of two haploid individuals different mating types, resulting in a heterokaryotic mycelial body made up genetically nuclei. Using population genomics data and experiments, we discover mushrooms invasive deadly Amanita phalloides can also be homokaryotic; evidence by single, unmated individuals. In California, genotypes homokaryotic are found mushrooms, implying nuclei mycelia involved outcrossing. We find...
Populations of the entomopathogenic fungus Batkoa major were analyzed using sequences four genomic regions and evaluated in relation to their genetic diversity, insect hosts collection site. This entomophthoralean pathogen killed numerous species from 23 families five orders two remote locations during 2019. The host list this biotrophic contains flies, true bugs, butterflies moths, beetles, barkflies. Among infected bugs (Order Hemiptera), spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is a new...
Following the 1988 International Congress of Ethnobiology, at which Belém Declaration had been adopted, Darrell Posey published a global call to action for researchers and policy makers address outstanding issues related protection Indigenous local knowledge (ILK) (1990a). ILK protections are today largely treated as matter intellectual property rights, field whose political landscape has undergone intense regulation critical scrutiny since time was writing. This paper provides an update on...
Summary Global change is reshaping Earth's biodiversity, but the changing distributions of nonpathogenic fungi remain largely undocumented, as do mechanisms enabling invasions. The ectomycorrhizal Amanita phalloides native to Europe and invasive in North America. Using population genetics genomics, we sought describe life history traits this successfully invading symbiotic fungus. To test whether death caps spread underground using hyphae, or aboveground sexual spores, mapped genotyped...
The activation of silent biosynthetic gene clusters (BGC) for the identification and characterization novel fungal secondary metabolites is a perpetual motion in natural product discoveries. Here, we demonstrated that one best-studied symbiosis signaling compounds, lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs), play role activating some these BGCs, resulting production known, putative, unknown with biological activities.
Phakopsora pachyrhizi, the causal agent of soybean rust (SBR), is a global threat to production. Since discovery SBR in continental United States, quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS) ribosomal DNA locus were established for its rapid detection. However, insufficient data initially available test against factors that could give rise misidentification. This study aimed reevaluate current (i) potential false-positive detection caused by...
Canonical sexual reproduction among basidiomycete fungi involves the fusion of two haploid individuals different sexes, resulting in a heterokaryotic mycelial body made up genetically nuclei 1 . Using population genomics data, we discovered mushrooms deadly invasive Amanita phalloides are also homokaryotic, evidence by single individuals. In California, genotypes homokaryotic found mushrooms, implying mycelia promote outcrossing. We death cap mating is controlled mating-type locus ( A....
Abstract A frequently ignored but critical aspect of microbial dispersal is survival in the atmosphere. We exposed spores two closely related, morphologically dissimilar, and economically important fungal pathogens to typical atmospheric environments modeled their movement troposphere. first measured mortality Alternaria solani A. alternata conidia ranges solar radiation, relative humidity, temperature. then an advantageous environment over 12 days. are nearly 10 times larger than most die...
In 1921, The Auk published an unresolved mystery submitted by Joseph Grinnell, founding director of the Museum Vertebrate Zoology at University California, Berkeley. He had collected two Oak Titmice (Baeolophus inornatus) whose breast feathers appeared to be yellow; were covered in microscopic particles. invited readers further investigate nature these Nearly a century later, we have determined that Grinnell's mysterious grains are willow (Salix) pollen, diagnosis he rejected because size...
Abstract The authors have withdrawn this manuscript and do not wish it to be cited. As we moved more deeply into population genomics, discovered the analyses initially used answer our questions well. We are recalibrating intend submit a new in future. If you any questions, please contact corresponding author.
Abstract Populations of the entomopathogenic fungus Batkoa major were analyzed using sequences four genomic regions and evaluated in relation to their genetic diversity, insect hosts collection site. This entomophthoralean pathogen killed numerous species from 23 families five orders two remote locations during 2019. The host list this biotrophic contains flies, true bugs, butterflies moths, beetles, barkflies. Among infected bugs (Order Hemiptera), spotted lanternfly ( Lycorma delicatula )...