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Editorial
. 2020 Sep 21:7:14.
doi: 10.1186/s40694-020-00104-1. eCollection 2020.

Fungal research in Japan: tradition and future

Norio Takeshita  1
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Editorial

Fungal research in Japan: tradition and future

Norio Takeshita. Fungal Biol Biotechnol. .
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Washoku (left), an electron microscopy image of an A. oryzae conidiophore (middle), Microbe Mound (right) at Manshuin Temple in Kyoto; we pay our deepest respect to the innumerable souls of microbes who have dedicated and sacrificed for us
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Invasive growth of A. oryzae (green) into rice (red)
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Modifications to A. oryzae for biotechnology purposes. Engineering A. oryzae to produce a monoclonal antibody (left). Comparison between A. oryzae hyphal pellets produce by wild type vs the dispersed hyphae produced by a mutant (right)
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Diversity of FRiPS factors in the kingdom Fungi
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