Fungal Species: Armillaria spp.

Haplotype-Phased Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of Floccularia luteovirens Provides Insights into Its Taxonomy, Adaptive Evolution, and Biosynthetic Potential

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Scientists successfully decoded the complete genetic blueprint of the yellow mushroom (Floccularia luteovirens), a valuable medicinal fungus found on the Tibetan Plateau. The high-quality genome assembly revealed the mushroom produces many different beneficial compounds like antitumor and anti-inflammatory molecules. The study also corrected previous scientific confusion about the mushroom’s evolutionary classification, showing it’s more closely related to other fungi than previously thought, and revealed how it adapted to harsh alpine conditions.

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Haplotype-Phased Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of Floccularia luteovirens Provides Insights into Its Taxonomy, Adaptive Evolution, and Biosynthetic Potential

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Scientists have created the most detailed genetic map of the yellow mushroom (Floccularia luteovirens), a highly valued medicinal and edible fungus from the Tibetan Plateau. Using advanced sequencing technology, they mapped its 13 chromosomes and identified 15 pathways that the mushroom uses to make potentially useful healing compounds. The research also solved a long-standing mystery about the mushroom’s family tree, proving it is not actually related to Armillaria mushrooms as previously thought. This genetic blueprint opens new possibilities for developing medicines from this special fungus.

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Electrical integrity and week-long oscillation in fungal mycelia

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Researchers monitored electrical signals in fungal mycelial networks over 100 days to understand how fungi coordinate their activities across space. When fungi encountered wood to decompose, they generated a clear, directional electrical signal from the wood toward the rest of the mycelium, acting like a biological command center. Most remarkably, after 60 days, the fungi developed a week-long electrical rhythm at the wood site, the longest oscillation ever recorded in fungi, which may help the fungus remember resource locations and coordinate its decomposition activities.

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Electrical integrity and week-long oscillation in fungal mycelia

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Researchers discovered that fungal mycelia (underground networks of fungal threads) use electrical signals to communicate across their bodies when searching for food like wood. When a fungus found a piece of wood to eat, it generated electrical signals that spread throughout its mycelial network, possibly helping coordinate the fungus’s response. Most remarkably, the fungus exhibited a peculiar electrical rhythm at the food location that cycled every week—the longest such pattern ever observed in fungi.

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