Developing new colors for the food industry is challenging, as colorants need to be
compatible with a food flavors, safety, and nutritional value, and which ultimately have a …

The term 'clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats'(CRISPR) has recently
become synonymous with the genome-editing revolution. The RNA-guided endonuclease …

CRISPR/Cas9 based systems have emerged as versatile platforms for precision genome
editing in a wide range of organisms. Here we have developed powerful CRISPR/Cas9 tools …

The EUROFUNG network is a virtual centre of multidisciplinary expertise in the field of fungal
biotechnology. The first academic-industry Think Tank was hosted by EUROFUNG to …

Pathogenic fungi have diverse growth lifestyles that support fungal colonization on plants.
Successful colonization and infection for all lifestyles depends upon the ability to modify …

Due to their biotechnological relevance as well as their importance as disease agents,
filamentous fungi and oomycetes have been prime candidates for genetic selection and in …

Following earlier incomplete and fragmented versions of a genome sequence for the grey
mould Botrytis cinerea, a gapless, near‐finished genome sequence for B. cinerea strain …

Objectives To develop a genome editing method using the CRISPR/Cas9 system in
Aspergillus oryzae, the industrial filamentous fungus used in Japanese traditional …

The rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae is the most serious pathogen of cultivated rice
and a significant threat to global food security. To accelerate targeted mutation and specific …

This communication describes the establishment of the type II bacterial CRISPR–Cas9
system to efficiently disrupt target genes in the fungal maize pathogen Ustilago maydis. A …