CSP 2019 Proposal "Comparative genomics and association mapping in Sordariales: insights into functional diversity in Neurospora and its relatives" aims to investigate the genomic bases of fungal thermophily and thermotolerance, biomass-degradation, and fungal-bacterial interactions. Sequencing multiple populations and species of Sordariales will enable comparative analysis across an order of biomass-degrading fungi frequently encountered in soil, compost and herbivore dung, and encompassing one of the few groups of thermophilic fungi.
Diplogelasinospora princeps CBS 135879
Diplogelasinospora princeps CBS 135879 was isolated from forest soil in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park, USA. The species was originally described by Canadian mycologist Roy F Cain [1]. Diplogelasinospora differs from Gelasinospora in having a transverse septum in the ascospore with the one cell remaining hyaline. Diplogelasinospora princeps is aconicial. Perithecia are globose and nonostiolate (cleistothecia). Asci are cylindrical with ascospores arranged in parallel fascicles.
References
- Cain, R. F. (1961). Anixiella and Diplogelasinospora, two genera with cleistothecia and pitted ascospores. Canadian Journal of Botany, 39(7), 1667-1677
