Energy from renewable resources is central to environmental sustainability. Among the
renewables, sunlight-driven fuel synthesis is a sustainable and economical approach to …

Plastic contamination of the environment is a global problem whose magnitude justifies the
consideration of plastics as emergent geomaterials with chemistries not previously seen in …

Mycorrhizas are among the most important biological interkingdom interactions, as they
involve~ 340,000 land plants and~ 50,000 taxa of soil fungi. In these mutually beneficial …

Mycorrhizal fungi are mutualists that play crucial roles in nutrient acquisition in terrestrial
ecosystems. Mycorrhizal symbioses arose repeatedly across multiple lineages of …

Phenolic resins (PRs) are being widely used in many fields such as molding plastics, foams,
coatings, and semiconductor packaging owing to their good properties including corrosion …

Lignin, a major component of lignocellulose, is the largest source of aromatic building blocks
on the planet and harbors great potential to serve as starting material for the production of …

In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

High-throughput sequencing studies generate vast amounts of taxonomic data. Evolutionary
ecological hypotheses of the recovered taxa and Species Hypotheses are difficult to test due …

Over the last couple of decades, the introduction of living systems to material science for the
synthesis of functional materials from biological resources is receiving immense …

Background. Rapid industrialization and anthropogenic activities such as the unmanaged
use of agro-chemicals, fossil fuel burning and dumping of sewage sludge have caused soils …