ARTS: A revisionary monograph of fungi in the genus Fusarium

镰刀菌属的真菌会引起植物、动物和人类疾病，并产生污染世界各地食物的毒素。尽管它们的重要性和普遍性，该属需要一个完整的分类学修改。在我们所知的大约300个物种中，只有大约一半有名字，因此许多研究人员无法得到关于这一群体的令人满意的答案。该项目将出版一本新的镰刀菌专著，提供对该属目前已知的所有物种的完整描述。重要的是，这本专著将提供与两个关键资源的直接电子链接：1)可供进一步研究的主要培养标本中的镰刀菌标本；2)具有基于序列的分类工具的DNA序列数据数据库。该专著的电子便携性将使其能够连接到生物多样性的门户网站，如生命百科全书和维基百科。这一资源还将允许发现和识别镰刀菌的新物种，即使在土壤和植物等研究得很好的环境中也是如此。该项目将培训两名博士生和一名博士后学者，扩大私人投资机构的培训，并促进与来自世界各地的不同科学家和学生的合作。该项目将利用新的和现有的基因序列数据，为30多年来首次对这一关键属进行全面的分类治疗提供信息。这本专著将包括概述该属生物多样性和生态多样性的介绍性章节。从这本专著中提炼出的镰刀菌基础指南将针对许多使用形态学进行鉴定的个体。个别物种的描述将根据进化关系进行安排，并将包括形态、生态和其他信息。它还将包括指向可用的分离物列表和与其相关的数据的链接。现有的分离株的条形码基因序列以及现有的识别不佳的镰刀菌序列将被整理，以纠正分类。这种精选的信息将最大限度地发挥它们在利用基于序列的分类的研究中的影响。尤其重要的是提供生物信息学平台可访问的精选数据集，用于对来自环境DNA研究的序列进行分类。

Fungi in the genus Fusarium cause plant, animal, and human diseases, and produce toxins that contaminate food around the world. Despite their importance and ubiquity, the genus needs a complete taxonomic revision. Only about half of the roughly 300 species we know about even have names, as a result many researchers are not able to get satisfying answers about this group. This project will produce a new monograph of Fusarium that provides a complete description of all currently known species in this genus. Importantly, this monograph will provide a direct electronic link with two key resources: 1) Fusarium specimens in major culture collections that are available for further research and 2) databases of DNA sequence data with a sequence-based classification tool. The electronic portability of the monograph will enable connecting to portals for biological diversity such as Encyclopedia of Life and Wikipedia. This resource will also allow the discovery and recognition of new species of Fusarium, even in well-studied environments such as soils and plants. This project will train two PhD students and a postdoctoral scholar, broaden the training of the PIs, and facilitate collaborations with diverse scientists and students from around the world. This project will utilize new and existing gene sequence data to inform the first full taxonomic treatment of this key genus in over thirty years. The monograph will include introductory chapters that summarize the biological and ecological diversity of the genus. A Fusarium Basics Guide distilled from the monograph will be aimed at the many individuals who use morphology for identification. Individual species descriptions will be arranged based on evolutionary relationships, and will include morphological, ecological and other information. It will also include links to lists of isolates that are available and the data associated with them. Existing barcode gene sequences of the isolates, as well as existing poorly identified Fusarium sequences, will be curated to correct the taxonomy. This curated information will maximize their impact in studies that utilize sequence-based classification. Of particular importance is providing curated datasets that are accessible to bioinformatics platforms used to classify sequences derived from environmental DNA studies.