Extremotolerant fungi as genetic resources for biotechnology

COMMISSION ON GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AS THEY RELATE TO PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE by Charles Spillane

At its Sixth Session, the Commission “agreed to postpone any further development of the draft Code until after the current negotiations for the revision of the International Undertaking were over”. This document is provided for information of the Commission in the interim period, in view of the very rapid developments in this sector. The study is the responsibility of the author, and does not n...

Endophytic Fungi, Characteristics and Their Potential for Genetic Manipulation

Drought meets acid: three new genera in a dothidealean clade of extremotolerant fungi

Fungal strains isolated from rocks and lichens collected in the Antarctic ice-free area of the Victoria Land, one of the coldest and driest habitats on earth, were found in two phylogenetically isolated positions within the subclass Dothideomycetidae. They are here reported as new genera and species, Recurvomyces mirabilisgen. nov., sp. nov. and Elasticomyces elasticusgen. nov., sp. nov. The ne...

An overview of biotechnology information resources.

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Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides a large suite of online resources for biological information and data, including the GenBank R nucleic acid sequence database and the PubMed database of citations and abstracts for published life science journals. the PubChem suite of small molecule databases). The Entrez system provides search and retrieval operations for many o...