Mycelium of Neurospora lineolata. Photo credit: Lucas Bonometti, Institut Agro, Montpellier

CSP 2019 Proposal "Comparative genomics and association mapping in Sordariales: insights into functional diversity in Neurospora and its relatives" aims to investigate the genomic bases of fungal thermophily and thermotolerance, biomass-degradation, and fungal-bacterial interactions. Sequencing multiple populations and species of Sordariales will enable comparative analysis across an order of biomass-degrading fungi frequently encountered in soil, compost and herbivore dung, and encompassing one of the few groups of thermophilic fungi.

Neurospora lineolata FGSC 1910

Fungal strain FGSC 1910 of Neurospora lineolata was isolated near Lahore in Pakistan. It belongs to Sordariales, family Sordariaceae. The species was initially described by Frederick, Uecker and Benjamin in 1969 [1]. The species name "lineolata" (small lines) refers to the numerous inconspicuous intercostal veins longitudinally traversing the walls of the spores.