Molecular Intricacies of Trichoderma-Plant-Pathogen Interactions
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
Galleria mellonella Larvae as a Model for Investigating Fungal—Host Interactions
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
Galleria mellonella larvae have become a widely accepted and utilised infection model due to the functional homology displayed between their immune response to infection and that observed in the mammalian innate immune response. Due to these similarities, comparable results to murine studies can be obtained using G. mellonella larvae in assessing t...
Diterpene Biosynthesis in Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
Plant-pathogenic fungi harbor various specialized metabolites including diterpenoids that function as hormones and virulence factors. The fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is the causal agent of rice blast disease and can infect over fifty grass species. We demonstrate that rice blast fungi encode two diterpene synthases that produce normal pimara-8,15-die...
Genetic Engineering of the Rock Inhabitant Knufia petricola Provides Insight Into the Biology of Extremotolerant Black F...
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
Black microcolonial fungi (Ascomycetes from Arthonio-, Dothideo-, and Eurotiomycetes) are stress-tolerant and persistent dwellers of natural and anthropogenic extreme habitats. They exhibit slow yeast-like or meristematic growth, do not form specialized reproduction structures and accumulate the black pigment 1,8-dihydroxynaphthalene (DHN) melanin ...
Tracheal Aspirate Galactomannan Testing in COVID-19-Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
Among critically ill patients, COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) is a challenging complication. The recommended diagnostic methods for this disease are bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) culture and galactomannan (GM) testing, which were not widely available during the pandemic. There is scarce information regarding GM testing in other r...
Importance of Seasonal Variation in Hawaiian Mushroom (Agaricomycetes) Basidiomata Production for Biodiversity Discovery...
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
The Hawaiian Islands have a relatively well-known funga for a tropical location, yet there are over 400 species of mushrooms (Agaricomycetes) in the archipelago that remain to be documented. Importantly, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently evaluated six mushrooms endemic to the islands as threatened with extinction. T...
Bacillus subtilis- and Pseudomonas fluorescens-Mediated Systemic Resistance in Tomato Against Sclerotium rolfsii and Stu...
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
The present study is a comparative study between Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) signaling and antioxidative enzymatic signaling and deals with induced systemic resistance (ISR) in enhancing the disease resistance in typical tomato plant (Solanum lycopersicum L.) infected by the collar rot fungus, Sclerotium rolfsii (Teleomorph: Athelia rolfsii) by p...
Relevance of Nutrient-Sensing in the Pathogenesis of Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton interdigitale
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
The growth and development of organisms depend on nutrient availability. Dermatophytes must sense nutrient levels and adapt to the host environment to colonize human and animal keratinized tissues. Owing to the clinical importance of the Trichophyton genus, this study compared the expression profile of genes involved in metabolism, cell cycle contr...
Molecular-Based Diversity Studies and Field Surveys Are Not Mutually Exclusive: On the Importance of Integrated Methodol...
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
Understanding and describing the diversity of living organisms is a great challenge. Fungi have for a long time been, and unfortunately still are, underestimated when it comes to taxonomic research. The foundations were laid by the first mycologists through field observations. These important fundamental works have been and remain vital reference w...
Basidiomycota Fungi and ROS: Genomic Perspective on Key Enzymes Involved in Generation and Mitigation of Reactive Oxygen...
Published in Frontiers in Fungal Biology
Our review includes a genomic survey of a multitude of reactive oxygen species (ROS) related intra- and extracellular enzymes and proteins among fungi of Basidiomycota, following their taxonomic classification within the systematic classes and orders, and focusing on different fungal lifestyles (saprobic, symbiotic, pathogenic). Intra- and extracel...
