Blueberry rust disease is caused by the fungal pathogen Pucciniastrum minimum (syn. Thekopsora minima). Despite its importance as a plant pathogen, there are relatively few published studies on P. minimum. This study investigated and refined methodol...
Candidozyma auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast that readily contaminates healthcare environments, persisting on dry surfaces and enabling transmission and difficult-to-control outbreaks. A systematic review of environmental hygiene interv...
Cadmium (Cd) contamination in agricultural soils severely impairs plant growth, disrupts microbial communities, and threatens food safety due to its high toxicity and mobility. Conventional remediation methods are often expensive and environmentally...
The species Candidozyma auris (formerly known as Candida auris) can be subdivided into four major and two minor clades. It is considered an emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen that causes invasive outbreaks around the world. Therefore, the accurate...
Invasive fungal infections are frequent complications in patients with hematologic malignancies due to immunosuppression and intensive treatments. In Colombia, limited diagnostic availability, heterogeneous prescribing practices, and emerging antifun...
The presence of lithobionts has historically been associated with biodeterioration, posing significant challenges to the conservation of culturally and historically significant stone heritage. This perception stems from abundant evidence of their rol...
Monascus spp. are renowned for producing valuable Monascus azaphilone pigments (MonAzPs), yet their biosynthesis is intrinsically linked to the co-production of the mycotoxin citrinin, posing a significant safety challenge and limiting industrial app...
Pomegranate dieback is a disease whose etiology remains only partially understood. In this study, surveys were carried out in orchards located in the Apulia, Basilicata, and Veneto regions from 2016 to 2020 with the objective to identify pathogens in...
Oudemansiella raphanipes is a prized edible mushroom renowned for its “three-high, one-low” nutritional profile (high protein, fiber, vitamins; low fat). However, the stage-specific molecular dynamics governing its development and their p...
Excessive fertilizer use drives soil degradation and resource waste. This study investigates how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) formulations (powder vs. granular) optimize maize (Zea mays L.) yield, soil microbiome, and economic benefits under 50...
The majority of terrestrial plants can interact with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) to form symbiotic relationships. AMF colonization not only enhances the host plant’s uptake of mineral nutrients but also improves its tolerance to biotic a...
Fusarium wilt of banana, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc), is a destructive vascular disease that seriously threatens global banana production. To investigate the contribution of histidine metabolism to Foc growth and pathogenicity,...
Disseminated cutaneous coccidioidomycosis (DCC) is an uncommon manifestation of Coccidioides infection resulting from hematogenous spread to the skin. While recurrence after treatment discontinuation has been reported in 17 to 50 percent of cases, as...
The fungal pathogen Metschnikowia bicuspidata causes “milky disease” in the Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis), which poses substantial challenges to sustainable aquaculture development considering the current lack of effective trea...
Cordycepin is a key active component of Cordyceps militaris, but the molecular mechanism underlying temperature-regulated biosynthesis remains unclear. In this study, Cordyceps militaris strain KN-1 was used as experimental material, with low-tempera...
Species of the ascomycetous genus Cladobotryum (Hypocreales, Hypocreaceae) are ecologically and economically important mycoparasites that cause cobweb disease in cultivated and wild mushrooms. Despite their significance as fungal pathogens and produc...
Although RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) enables rapid transcriptome profiling, functional annotation of fungal transcriptomes remains challenging. Existing tools prioritize broad taxonomic coverage, and reference genomes are scarce for non-model species. T...
Protein phosphorylation modification plays a role in cells’ response to oxidative stress, a key factor leading to postharvest browning of Flammulina filiformis. However, the molecular mechanism by which protein phosphorylation contributes to po...
Soil alkalinization constitutes a significant abiotic stress factor that severely constrains global agricultural productivity. The application of alkali-tolerant endophytes represents a promising strategy for enhancing crop resilience. This study foc...
FLOCponics systems combine biofloc-based aquaculture with nutrient recycling and are considered sustainable for intensive aquaculture. However, fungal community dynamics in these systems and their links to water quality remain poorly understood. In t...
Sphingolipids are a class of amphipathic lipids characterized by a sphingoid base backbone, which can be classified into glycosphingolipids and sphingomyelins. They exhibit structural complexity and functional diversity, being widely distributed in e...
Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technologies have significantly enhanced the accuracy of phylogenetic inference, enabling comprehensive genome-wide analyses. Fusarium fungi, which include numerous agriculturally and medically important...
Villosiclava virens (anamorph: Ustilaginoidea virens) is a fungal pathogen that causes rice false smut, one of the most devastating diseases of rice. The Uvpks1 gene encoding polyketide synthase is responsible for the biosynthesis of ustilaginoidins,...
Barnyard grass, a widespread and persistent weed in rice paddies, belongs to the same family as rice and may act as a bridge host for the rice blast fungus. This study utilized comparative genomics to analyze six Pyricularia oryzae strains isolated f...
Microscopic fungi constitute one of the most varied and ecologically significant groups of organisms on Earth; nonetheless, a substantial portion of their richness remains uncharted and little studied [...]
Esteya vermicola is a nematophagous fungus with strong parasitic ability against the pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) and shows great potential for the biological control of pine wilt disease. However, this fungus is highly sensitive to...
Vulvovaginal candidosis is an affliction caused by yeasts. Symptoms in the vulva are generally associated with the spreading of infected vaginal fluid. To better understand the role of the vulva in these dynamics, in this study we aim to fully identi...
The regulatory mechanisms by which AMF modulate the integrated carbon (C)-nitrogen (N)-phosphorus (P) metabolic network in woody plant leaves remain unclear. We investigated how varying nitrate (NO3−) and phosphate (Pi) supply, with or without...
Invasive pulmonary fungal infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality among immunocompromised and critically ill patients. Rapid and accurate diagnosis is crucial for improving outcomes, yet conventional methods such as culture and his...
Pleurotus ostreatus, a globally cultivated oyster mushroom, is susceptible to viral infections that threaten yield and quality. This study reports the identification and characterization of three novel viruses from a symptomatic P. ostreatus strain K...
Freshwater fungi remain insufficiently documented in the Mediterranean river systems despite their key roles in organic-matter turnover. Here, we surveyed filamentous fungi associated with submerged decaying plant debris in the Zújar River (Ex...
Mycological studies in China have achieved substantial and encouraging progress in recent decades. In this paper, the discoveries of novel fungal taxa published by Chinese mycologists and the documented records of fungi distributed in China are stati...
Fungi are a critical component of microbial biomass in agricultural soils, but their distribution across soil depths under different cover crops remains poorly understood. We used high-throughput sequencing of fungal ITS1 amplicons to characterize fu...
To investigate the regulatory mechanisms of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on the growth, cadmium (Cd) uptake and translocation of plants with distinct mycorrhizal dependency (MD), a pot experiment was conducted using Paspalum notatum (high MD) a...
Mucor is widely distributed in nature and extensively applied in industries, food, and other fields. Based on analyses of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and the large subunit (LSU) of the ribosomal RNA gene, RNA polymerase II largest subunit g...
Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group (AG)-2-2IIIB and AG-4HGI are the main pathogens causing sugar beet seedling damping-off and crown and root rot disease. In this study, 1232 loci of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) were obtained via transcriptome se...
Tomato late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans is a devastating disease, and current control of the disease relies heavily on chemical fungicides. Certain Trichoderma strains used as biocontrol fungi have shown superb efficacy against P. infesta...
In Candida species, including Candidozyma auris (formerly Candida auris), overexpression of efflux pumps is a well-established mechanism of antifungal resistance. However, accumulating evidence indicates that impaired drug import may also significant...
Metarhizium lepidiotae is an important entomopathogenic fungus with substantial agricultural value. However, prolonged subculturing often leads to phenotypic degeneration, including reduced conidiation and impaired metabolic activity, while the under...
The extract of Xylaria thienhirunae SWUF17-44.1 displayed broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity, with higher potency against Gram-positive bacteria than Gram-negative strains. Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values were as low as 0.63 µg...
Fungi, including yeasts, have played a central role in the development of knowledge about cell physiology and molecular biology as experimental eukaryotic models. However, much of this knowledge has been generated using classical organisms such as Sa...
Sour rot is a significant postharvest disease affecting citrus fruit, causing sourness and decay in various cultivars, particularly lemons. How the pathogen, Geotrichum citri-aurantii, adapts to the highly acidic environment of citrus fruit remains i...
The Cladia aggregata group of lichen-forming fungi comprises multiple species that are difficult to differentiate based on phenotypic characters. It has a wide distribution across several continents, but is most diverse in Australasia. We aimed to de...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Scedosporium/Lomentospora often coexist in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, where their interaction can affect disease outcomes. Our group has recently demonstrated that P. aeruginosa suppresses the growth of Scedospo...
Dermatophytes are fungi that infect the human skin and its appendages. With new pathogenic species emerging and resistance to first-line drugs rising, microbiologic diagnosis and species identification are becoming even more important. In this study,...
Plant endophytes, often termed the “second genome”, critically shape host adaptability. However, the complexity of their interactions, regulated by microbial traits, host species, and environment, has limited both our understanding of sym...
The phytopathogenic fungus Colletotrichum scovillei causes a destructive anthracnose on pepper fruit worldwide. Conidiation plays an essential role in the dissemination of pathogenic fungi, yet the regulatory mechanisms underlying this process remain...
Filamentous fungi are widely used in biotechnological processes because they secrete significant amounts of protein, use inexpensive nutrient media, and are predictably scalable in technological processes. Penicillium verruculosum B1-537 (now renamed...
The genus Picoa is here revisited after obtaining new molecular and morphological data. Morphological features of type material and other historical collections of P. juniperi and P. lefebvrei were studied and compared with recent collections obtaine...
This study presents a comparative analysis of secondary metabolites and antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anticancer activities of acetone extracts obtained from the lichens Lepraria incana and Pertusaria amara. HPLC-UV analysis identified divaric acid...
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