The article presents the five-year project of Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the international research team, comprising of Joseph Spatafora, Jason Stajich and Kevin McCluskey, to sequence 1000 fungal genomes of the Fungal Tree of Life in the U.S. It mentions that JGI and the team will sequence 55 families and 27 orders of fungal genomes. Moreover, they sequenced 1000 fungal genomes to fill the gap in the Fungal Tree.