Abstract Soil fungi are vital for regulating ecosystem carbon balance and productivity, by driving processes related to soil nutrient cycling. The rate capacity of fungi-mediated linked fungal biomass dynamics identifying the drivers is important predicting responses environmental changes. Here, ergosterol-based estimates ITS2-based community composition profiles were used assess guilds. Effect...

Corresponding Author: Mika A. Kähkönen Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, Division of Microbiology and Biotechnology, P.O. Box 56, Biocenter 1, FI 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland Email: [email protected] Abstract: To find out ability of fourteen basidiomycetes and four ascomycetes strains to grow in the presence of synthetic colour dyes and to degrade them, fungi were ...

Candida apicola, a highly osmotolerant ascomycetes yeast, produces sophorolipids (biosurfactants), membrane fatty acids, and enzymes of biotechnological interest. The genome obtained has a high-quality draft for this species and can be used as a reference to perform further analyses, such as differential gene expression in yeast from Candida genera.

To feed the growing human population, natural grasslands are being converted to agricultural use at a massive scale. This conversion may have consequences for soil biodiversity, but its impact on community assembly of differentially microbial groups remains largely unknown. Here, we selected three typical land-use types: grassland, arable land (formerly grassland), and forest grassland) in Song...

Carbon dioxide (CO(2)) is among the most important gases for all organisms. Its reversible interconversion to bicarbonate (HCO(3) (-)) reaches equilibrium spontaneously, but slowly, and can be accelerated by a ubiquitous group of enzymes called carbonic anhydrases (CAs). These enzymes are grouped by their distinct structural features into alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta- and zeta-classes. While ph...

This study describes two novel regulators, GalX and GalR, that control d-galactose utilization in Aspergillus nidulans. This system is unique for A. nidulans since no GalR homologs were found in other ascomycetes. GalR shares significant sequence identity with the arabinanolytic and xylanolytic regulators AraR and XlnR, but GalX is more distantly related.