Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the movement of genetic material across branches of the
tree of life, is well established in prokaryotes and uncontroversial. This is explained in part …

A never-ending arms race drives coevolution between pathogens and hosts. In plants,
pathogen attacks invoke multiple layers of host immune responses. Many pathogens deliver …

The mutualistic symbiosis involving Glomeromycota, a distinctive phylum of early diverging
Fungi, is widely hypothesized to have promoted the evolution of land plants during the …

"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …

Phosphite (Phi) is a chemical analog of orthophosphate [HPO43−]. It is a systemic pesticide
generally known to control the prevalence of oomycetes and soil-borne diseases such as …

This article is the 15th contribution in the Fungal Diversity Notes series, wherein 115 taxa
from three phyla, nine classes, 28 orders, 48 families, and 64 genera are treated. Fungal …

Oomycetes are eukaryotic microorganisms morphologically similar to but phylogenetically
distant from true fungi. Most species in the genus Phytophthora of oomycetes are …

The oomycetes are a class of microscopic, filamentous eukaryotes within the Stramenopiles-
Alveolata-Rhizaria (SAR) supergroup which includes ecologically significant animal and …

Rust fungi include many species that are devastating crop pathogens. To develop resistant
plants, a better understanding of rust virulence factors, or effector proteins, is needed. Thus …

Fungicides are applied intensively to prevent downy mildew infections of grapevines (Vitis
vinifera) with high impact on the environment. In order to develop alternative strategies we …