Introduction Mushroom-forming fungi comprise diverse species that develop complex
multicellular structures. In cultivated species, both ecological adaptation and artificial …

High temperatures associated with a fluctuating climate profoundly accelerate the
occurrence of a myriad of plant diseases around the world. A comprehensive insight into …

The movement of plants onto land, which occurred 400–500 million years ago (Ma)(see
Chapter 1), could not have been possible without plants having the adaptive capacity to …

Recent advances in molecular methods have increased our understanding of various fungal
symbioses. However, little is known about genomic and microbiome features of most …

We have found that plants in natural ecosystems adapt to abiotic stress by forming symbiotic
associations with Class 2 fungal endophytes. Without the endophytes, plants are not stress …

Salinity stress is an ongoing problem for global crop production. Schrenkiella parvula and
Eutrema salsugineum are salt-tolerant extremophytes closely related to Arabidopsis …

Fruiting body development in macrofungi is an intensive research subject. In this study, high-
quality genomes were assembled for two sexually compatible monokaryons from a …

The plant cell wall is an abundant and renewable resource for lignocellulosic applications
such as the production of biofuel. Due to structural and compositional complexities, the plant …

Pigments and melanins of fungal spores have been investigated for decades, revealing
important roles in the survival of the fungus in hostile environments. The key genes and the …

Many important plant traits are products of nested symbiosis: mobile genetic elements
(MGEs) are nested within microbes, which in turn, are nested within plants. Plant trait …