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Talaromyces sp. HC1 growing on potato dextrose agar. Image by Diego Jimenez.
Talaromyces sp. HC1 growing on potato dextrose agar. Image by Diego Jimenez.

This genome was not sequenced or assembled at the JGI. Rather, the assembly was provided by Diego Jimenez on June 22, 2021 and then annotated using the JGI annotation pipeline.

Talaromyces sp. HC1 was isolated from a rice crop rhizospheric soil in Colombia and has shown high cellulolytic and xylanolytic activity on agricultural residues such as rice straw, carnation stems, sugar cane and barley husk. This strain, in a tripartite consortium with two bacterial strains of the genus Bacillus, has been used as an accelerator in composting processes of organic solid wastes from homes and food markets, biosolids and swine mortalities. It has shown satisfactory results in reducing time and improving quality of the obtained product. In addition to its potential as a vast source of enzymes for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass, Talaromyces sp. HC1 has plant growth promotion activity, as a phosphorus solubilizer, among others.