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，并产生毒素污染世界各地的食物。尽管它们的重要性和普遍性，属需要一个完整的分类修订。在我们所知道的大约300个物种中，只有大约一半的物种有名字，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。该项目将产生一本新的镰刀菌专著，提供该属所有已知物种的完整描述。重要的是，本专著将提供与两个关键资源的直接电子链接：1)主要培养收藏品中的镰刀菌标本可用于进一步研究；2)DNA序列数据数据库与基于序列的分类工具。该专著的电子便携性将使其能够连接到诸如生命百科全书和维基百科之类的生物多样性门户网站。这一资源也将允许发现和识别镰刀菌的新物种，甚至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研究生和一名博士后学者，扩大对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30多年来首次对这一关键属进行完整的分类处理提供信息。该专著将包括介绍性章节，总结生物和生态多样性的属。从专著中提取的镰刀菌基础指南将针对许多使用形态学进行鉴定的个人。单个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。它还将包括链接到现有的分离株清单以及与之相关的数据。现有的分离物的条形码基因序列，以及现有的鉴定不佳的镰刀菌序列，将被整理以纠正分类。这些经过整理的信息将在利用基于序列的分类的研究中发挥最大的作用。特别重要的是为生物信息学平台提供可访问的经过整理的数据集，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.