Most terrestrial plants live in mutualistic symbiosis with root-infecting mycorrhizal fungi.
Fossil records and molecular clock dating suggest that all extant land plants have arisen …

Seedlings are highly sensitive to their environment. After seeds, they typically suffer the
highest mortality of any life history stage. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of …

Homobasidiomycetes include the mushroomforming fungi and related taxa. Over 13000
species of homobasidiomycetes have been described, which is equal to approximately 23 …

Opsins are a class of retinal-binding, seven transmembrane helix proteins that function as
light-responsive ion pumps or sensory receptors. Previously, genes encoding opsins had …

Unicellular fungi thrive in diverse niches around the world, and many of these niches
present unique and stressful challenges that must be contended with by their inhabitants …

Complete nucleotide sequences have been determined for atp6 from Suillus luteus and
cox3 from Suillus sinuspaulianus (Boletales, Hymenomycetes, Basidiomycota), which code …

Most members of the ascomycetous genus Cordyceps are endoparasitic fungi of insects and
other arthropods, but about 20 of the 300 described species are parasitic to hart's truffles …

Mycorrhizal fungi form mutualistic associations with the roots of most land plants and provide
them with mineral nutrients from the soil in exchange for fixed carbon derived from …

What makes a fungus pathogenic? In this review, phylogenetic inference is used to
speculate on the evolution of plant and animal pathogens in the fungal Phylum Ascomycota …

Relatively little is known about the mechanisms through which gene expression regulation
evolves. To investigate this, we systematically explored the conservation of regulatory …