Marine fungi: A treasure trove of novel natural products and for biological discovery

Planktonic Marine Fungi: A Review

“…For example, the 1,000 fungal genome project has brought the entire mycological community into the genomics age (Spatafora et al., 2017), but fewer than 10 of the sequenced genomes were of marine origin. The number of individual genomics studies on marine fungi is very small, and most published studies using genomics to study marine fungi are motivated by potential biotechnological applications of marine fungi (Ameen et al., 2021; Kempken, 2023; A. Kumar et al., 2018; Xue et al., 2022). Given that nearly 1,900 marine fungal species have been described (Calabon et al., 2023), there needs to be a community effort to increase the number of genomic studies of marine fungi.…”

“…Currently, “marine fungi” are defined as any fungi recovered repeatedly from marine habitats that are able to grow and/or sporulate in marine environments, form symbiotic relationships with other marine organisms, adapt and evolve at the genetic level, or are active metabolically in marine environments (Pang et al., 2016). Driven by rising interests from multiple disciplines in the past decade, a number of reviews, books, and perspective articles have provided synthesis of our knowledge derived from over a century of research on marine fungi (Amend et al., 2019; Breyer & Baltar, 2023; Burgaud et al., 2022; Cunliffe, 2023; Gladfelter et al., 2019; Gonçalves, Esteves, & Alves, 2022; Grossart et al., 2019; Hassett et al., 2019; Jones & Pang, 2012; Kempken, 2023; Raghukumar, 2017a; Rédou et al., 2016; Richards et al., 2012; Sen et al., 2022). Planktonic marine fungi refer to those (in the form of spores, yeasts, mycelia, sporangia or other fungal propagules) that are found to be active in suspension or attached to particles, substrates or hosts in the ocean (G. Wang et al., 2012).…”

Planktonic marine fungi: A review

“…For example, the 1000 fungal genome project has brought the entire mycological community into the genomics age (Spatafora et al, 2017), but fewer than ten of the sequenced genomes were of marine origin. The number of individual genomics studies on marine fungi is very small, and most published studies using genomics to study marine fungi are motivated by potential biotechnological applications of marine fungi (Ameen et al, 2021;Kempken, 2023;A. Kumar et al, 2018;Xue et al, 2022).…”

“…Currently, "marine fungi" are defined as any fungi recovered repeatedly from marine habitats that are able to grow and/or sporulate in marine environments, form symbiotic relationships with other marine organisms, adapt and evolve at the genetic level, or are active metabolically in marine environments (Pang et al, 2016). Driven by rising interests from multiple disciplines in the past decade, a number of reviews, books, and perspective articles have provided synthesis of our knowledge derived from over a century of research on marine fungi (Amend et al, 2019;Burgaud et al, 2022;Cunliffe, 2023;Gladfelter et al, 2019;Grossart et al, 2019;Hassett et al, 2019;Jones & Pang, 2012;Kempken, 2023;Raghukumar, 2017a;Rédou et al, 2016;Richards et al, 2012;Sen et al, 2022). Planktonic marine fungi refer to those (in the form of spores, yeasts, mycelia, sporangia or other fungal propagules) that are found to be active in suspension or attached to particles, substrates or hosts in the ocean (Wang et al, 2012).…”