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Analyses of the Phlebiopsis gigantea genome reveal enzyme systems involved in the degradation of conifers.
The wood decay fungus Phlebiopsis gigantea rapidly colonizes conifer wood by metabolizing complex resins as well as the major cell wall polymers cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. The radial section of pine wood shows extensive erosion of cell walls during hyphal invasion of the ray parenchyma cells and tracheids. See Hori et al.
Image Credit: Joel Jurgens and Robert A. Blanchette, University of Minnesota
Citation: (2014) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 10(12) December 2014. PLoS Genet 10(12): ev10.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v10.i12
Published: December 18, 2014
Copyright: © 2014 Jurgens and Blanchette. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The wood decay fungus Phlebiopsis gigantea rapidly colonizes conifer wood by metabolizing complex resins as well as the major cell wall polymers cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. The radial section of pine wood shows extensive erosion of cell walls during hyphal invasion of the ray parenchyma cells and tracheids. See Hori et al.
Image Credit: Joel Jurgens and Robert A. Blanchette, University of Minnesota