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ArticlePLoS pathogens2025

Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery.

Sara Branco, Peter G Avis, Kerrie Barry, Scott Bates, Gerald M Cobián, Ellen G Dow, Sara Gremillion, Amy Honan, Chinyere A Knight, Kurt LaButti and 6 more

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Article in PLoS pathogens, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Sara BrancoDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-9890-933X
Peter G AvisSchool of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, United States of America.
Kerrie BarryDOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Scott BatesDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana, United States of America.
Gerald M CobiánDepartment of Biological Sciences, California State University Chico, Chico, California, United States of America.
Ellen G DowEnvironmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Sara GremillionDepartment of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GeorgiaUnited States of America.
Amy HonanDepartment of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America.
Chinyere A KnightDepartment of Biology, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama, United States of America.
Kurt LaButtiDOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
C Alisha QuandtDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.
Jane E StewartDepartment of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
Jayson TalagArizona Genomics Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
Andrew W WilsonDepartment of Research and Conservation, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.
Lotus LofgrenDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America.
Stephen James MondoDOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-5797-0647

Funding

National Science Foundation 2029168U.S. Department of Energy DE-AC02-05CH11231
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungi are important and hyperdiverse organisms, yet chronically understudied. Most fungal clades have no reference genomes, impeding our understanding of their ecosystem functions and use as solutions in health and biotechnology. Also, opportunities for training in fungal biology and genomics are lacking, creating a bottleneck that hinders the recruitment and cultivation of a talented future mycological workforce. To address these issues, we developed Myco-Ed, an educational program offering training and scientific contributions through genome sequencing and analysis. Myco-Ed empowers students to pursue careers in fungal biology while improving fungal resources. Myco-Ed has been piloted at 12 institutions (15 classrooms) ranging from online e-Campuses to R1 universities, resulting in hundreds of fungal observations and many new high-quality reference genomes.

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CurriculumFungiMycologyGenome, FungalGenomicsHumans

Identifiers

PMID40680048
PMCPMC12273965

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