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The future of fungi: threats and opportunities

Nicola Case
Judith Berman
David Blehert
Robert Cramer
Christina Cuomo
Cameron Currie
Iuliana Ene
Matthew Fisher
Lillian Fritz-Laylin
Aleeza Gerstein
N Louise Glass
Neil Gow
Sarah Gurr
Chris Todd Hittinger
Tobias Hohl
Iliyan Iliev
Timothy James
Hailing Jin
Bruce Klein
James Kronstad
Jeffrey Lorch
Victoria Mcgovern
Aaron Mitchell
Julia Segre
Rebecca Shapiro
Donald Sheppard
Anita Sil
Jason Stajich
Eva Stukenbrock
John Taylor
Dawn Thompson
Gerard Wright
Joseph Heitman
Leah Cowen

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The fungal kingdom represents an extraordinary diversity of organisms with profound impacts across animal, plant, and ecosystem health. Fungi simultaneously support life, by forming beneficial symbioses with plants and producing life-saving medicines, and bring death, by causing devastating diseases in humans, plants, and animals. With climate change, increased antimicrobial resistance, global trade, environmental degradation, and novel viruses altering the impact of fungi on health and disease, developing new approaches is now more crucial than ever to combat the threats posed by fungi and to harness their extraordinary potential for applications in human health, food supply, and environmental remediation. To address this aim, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund convened a workshop to unite leading experts on fungal biology from academia and industry to strategize innovative solutions to global challenges and fungal threats. This report provides recommendations to accelerate fungal research and highlights the major research advances and ideas discussed at the meeting pertaining to 5 major topics: (1) Connections between fungi and climate change and ways to avert climate catastrophe; (2) Fungal threats to humans and ways to mitigate them; (3) Fungal threats to agriculture and food security and approaches to ensure a robust global food supply; (4) Fungal threats to animals and approaches to avoid species collapse and extinction; and (5) Opportunities presented by the fungal kingdom, including novel medicines and enzymes.
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pasteur-04134020 , version 1 (20-06-2023)

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Nicola Case, Judith Berman, David Blehert, Robert Cramer, Christina Cuomo, et al.. The future of fungi: threats and opportunities. G3, 2022, 12 (11), pp.jkac224. ⟨10.1093/g3journal/jkac224⟩. ⟨pasteur-04134020⟩

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