The subject invention provides compositions and methods for reducing the carbon footprint of producing livestock. Microbe-based soil treatment compositions reduce greenhouse gas emissions from producing livestock feed, and in turn, improve the health and productivity of livestock animals.

The subject invention provides materials and methods for reducing deleterious atmospheric gases, such as greenhouse gases (GHGs) by enhancing utilization and storage of carbon in plants, as well as increasing the sequestration of carbon in plant and soil matter in the form of degradation-resistant organic polymers.

A method and modified fermentation intermediate are disclosed for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA). The method comprises heat sterilizing a fermentation medium comprising dextrose to produce a heat sterilized fermentation medium, wherein the heat sterilizing converts at least a portion of the dextrose to DP2+ sugars. The method comprises combining the heat sterilized fermentation medium with an enzyme capable of converting DP2+ sugars to dextrose, thereby producing a modified heat sterilized fermentation medium comprising more dextrose and less DP+2 sugars than without combining the medium with the enzyme. The modified heat sterilized fermentation intermediate may be placed in contact with a microorganism to produce PUFA, wherein the microorganism is capable of utilizing dextrose to produce PUFA.

The present invention relates to a mutant of a parent filamentous fungal cell, comprising: a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide of interest; a racA gene encoding a Rho-GTPase RacA protein, wherein the racA gene is modified rendering the mutant partially or completely deficient in the production of the Rho-GTPase RacA protein; and a ras2 gene encoding a GTPase Ras2 protein, wherein the GTPase Ras2 protein is modified to produce a GTPase Ras2 variant comprising a substitution at a position corresponding to position 16 of SEQ ID NO: 11, wherein the combination of the modified racA gene and the Ras2 variant synergistically increases the productivity of the mutant in the production of the polypeptide of interest. The present invention also relates to a method of producing a polypeptide of interest with such a mutant.

The invention relates to the various uses of a fungus strain which belongs to the Trichoderma genus and in which the cel1a gene has been knocked out. The invention relates in particular to a method of producing proteins by a fungus strain which belongs to the Trichoderma genus and in which the cel1a gene has been knocked out, comprising at least two steps: a first step of growth in a batch phase in the presence of at least one carbon growth substrate, and a second step of producing proteins in a fed-batch phase in the presence of a composition comprising at least lactose and a second sugar, the lactose content in the composition representing approximately between 0 and 30% by weight of the total sugar content of the composition, in particular between 5 and 30%.

The present invention relates to an isolated variant Ire1 polypeptide, comprising (a) an amino acid substitution at position 153 of the Trichoderma reesei Ire1 polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 2; or (b) an amino acid substitution at a position corresponding to position 153 of the Trichoderma reesei Ire1 of SEQ ID NO: 2 and has at least 70%, but less than 100%, sequence identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2. The present invention also relates to a recombinant filamentous fungal host cell comprising the mutated ire1 gene encoding the variant Ire1 polypeptide for producing a secreted heterologous polypeptide of interest, a method for producing the secreted heterologous polypeptide of interest in the recombinant filamentous fungal host cell, and a method of improving the productivity or yield of the secreted heterologous polypeptide of interest in the recombinant filamentous fungal host cell.

The present invention concerns a process for producing enzymes by a strain belonging to a filamentous fungus, said process comprising two steps: (a) a first step of growing the fungi, in the presence of at least one carbon-based growth substrate, in a stirred and aerated bioreactor in batch phase, at a pH of not more than 4.6; (b) a second step of producing enzymes, starting from the culture medium obtained in the first step (a), in the presence of at least one inductive carbon-based substrate, at a pH of not more than 4.6.

A novel method of growing fungi is disclosed which uses an engineered artificial media and produces high density filamentous fungi biomats that can be harvested with a minimum of processing and from which fungal products such as antibiotics, proteins, and lipids can be isolated, the method resulting in lowered fungus cultivation costs for energy usage, oxygenation, water usage and waste stream production.

Described are methods for increasing the production of small molecules in a submerged Corynebacterium culture by supplementing Corynebacterium growth medium with the non-enzymatic fraction of spent Trichoderma fermentation broth.

The present invention relates to a novel strain of Trichoderma comprising genetic modifications that enable the improved production of an enzyme cocktail, involving at least upregulation of the transcription factor Xyr1 according to SEQ ID No. 1; disruption of the gene ACE1 according to SEQ ID No. 2; disruption of the gene SLP1 according to SEQ ID No. 3; and expression of the gene Cel3a from Rasamsonia emersonii according to SEQ ID No. 4.