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Genomic Contributions to the Study of Soil and Plant-Interacting Fungi

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Genomics of Soil- and Plant-Associated Fungi

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 36))

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This volume brings together contributions of genomics to the study of soil fungi and plant-interacting fungi. Fungal genome projects are now far too numerous to cover in a single volume, and the species have been chosen to follow several routes through this expanding field of research: from model species for genetics like Neurospora crassa and Aspergillus nidulans to model pathogens and from soil fungi to plant-interacting fungi to some plant pathogens that are not primarily residents of the soil. In parallel, we have attempted to bring a variety of technologies: genetics, transcriptomics, biochemistry, and, of course, genomics. This chapter thus provides an overview that will help the reader to link the species that are included with the extensive research on species that are not discussed here. We briefly summarize with some directions which future research is likely to take. The final chapter on methodology will be a convenient reference source for some of the experimental basis underlying the conclusions reached in the species-oriented chapters.

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  1. Department of Biology, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel

    Benjamin A. Horwitz

  2. Central Institute for Cotton Research, Shankar Nagar PO, 2, Nagpur, 440010, India

    Prasun K. Mukherjee & Mala Mukherjee

  3. Area Gene Technology and Applied Biochemistry, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9, 1060, Vienna, Austria

    Christian P. Kubicek

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Horwitz, B.A., Mukherjee, P.K., Mukherjee, M., Kubicek, C.P. (2013). Genomic Contributions to the Study of Soil and Plant-Interacting Fungi. In: Horwitz, B., Mukherjee, P., Mukherjee, M., Kubicek, C. (eds) Genomics of Soil- and Plant-Associated Fungi. Soil Biology, vol 36. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39339-6_1

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