Sentences with phrase «fungal symbiosis»
Our project, Genomics of a Beetle - fungal symbiosis with massive implications for forest Disturbance Ecology, aims to understand the obligate relationship between bark and ambrosia beetles and their symbiotic fungi.
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Surprisingly little attention has been paid to the basic biology of this beetle - fungal symbiosis, and this problem is fundamental: the beetle can not survive in the absence of its fungal partners.
MT - EPSCoR Focus 1: The genomics of a beetle - fungal symbiosis with massive implications for forest disturbance ecology and climate
As the D14L protein is also involved in plants developmental responses to light Paszkowski talks of a «gut feeling» that — with this ancient protein responding to light, atmosphere (through smoke detection) and soil environment (through fungal symbiosis)-- it could have been a developmental crossroads vital to plants» evolutionary leap out of the oceans.
The fungal symbiosis also makes the plants more tolerant to certain diseases and environmental factors such as drought.
«Retracing the roots of fungal symbioses.»
«Such fungal symbioses assisted plants to make the transition to land.
Plant physiology and demography, insect population dynamics, insect - fungal symbioses, land management practices, and climate dynamics all play important roles in the overall outbreak process.
Not exact matches
«However, recent work has shown that at least some of the fungal partners in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses lack the genes for enzymes involved in the major pathway of lipid biosynthesis, and are therefore unable to produce certain essential fatty acids,» Gutjahr explains.
«This is the first solid piece of work to suggest lichen symbiosis is reversible,» says David Hibbett, a fungal evolutionary biologist at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
A better understanding of the role of lipid biosynthesis in this type of symbiosis could therefore help to select host plants that can make optimal use of their relationship with their fungal partners, which can be a benefit to sustainable agriculture.
The long symbiosis between attine ants and the fungi they cultivate is converted to a tripartite ecological arms race by the addition of a third party - a fungal parasite.
The discovery of another symbiotic microbe in leaf - cutter ant fungal gardens is «very exciting,» says etymologist Ted Schultz of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. «When I first got into this stuff, we thought it was a... two - partner symbiosis.
The findings revealed that in some cases, the fungal partner of this symbiosis streamlined its mitochondrial genome, much like a couple moving in together might get rid of duplicate household furnishings.
The focus is on molecular microbiology and virology, and includes topics such as genomics, the gamut of plant and animal host - pathogen interactions, host immune responses, characterization and evolution of virulence determinants, cell cycle and differentiation, symbiosis in plant and animal associations, environmental microbiology, biodiversity and evolution, population dynamics, sex and mutagenesis, antibiotic resistance and production, drug and vaccine targets, as well as aspects of prion diseases and of fungal and protozoan biology.