ARTS: A revisionary monograph of fungi in the genus Fusarium

镰刀菌属真菌引起植物、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，属需要一个完整的分类修订。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个群体的满意答案。该项目将产生一个新的专题论文镰刀菌，提供了一个完整的描述，所有目前已知的物种在这个属。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）可用于进一步研究的主要培养物收藏中的镰刀菌标本，2）具有基于序列的分类工具的DNA序列数据数据库。专著的电子便携性将使其能够与生物多样性门户网站，如《生命百科全书》和维基百科连接。这一资源也将允许发现和识别新的镰刀菌物种，即使是在土壤和植物等研究充分的环境中。该项目将培养两名博士生和一名博士后学者，扩大PI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，为三十多年来对这一关键属的首次完整分类学处理提供信息。这本专著将包括介绍性章节，总结该属的生物和生态多样性。从专着中提炼出来的镰刀菌基础指南将针对许多使用形态学进行鉴定的人。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分离株列表及其相关数据的链接。将对分离株的现有条形码基因序列以及现有鉴别不佳的镰刀菌序列进行管理，以纠正分类。这些精心策划的信息将最大限度地发挥其在利用基于序列的分类研究中的影响。特别重要的是提供可供生物信息学平台访问的精选数据集，这些平台用于对来自环境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.