Fungi are considered among the most efficient microbial degraders of plastics, as they
produce salient enzymes and can survive on recalcitrant compounds with limited nutrients …

Aspergillus oryzae, also known as the yellow koji mold, produces various hydrolytic
enzymes that are widely used in different industries. Its high capacity to produce secretory …

Regulated Ire1-dependent decay (RIDD) is a feedback mechanism in which the
endoribonuclease Ire1 cleaves endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-localized mRNAs encoding …

In multinuclear and multicellular filamentous fungi little is known about how mRNAs
encoding secreted enzymes are transcribed and localized spatiotemporally. To better …

The hydroxylation of steroids in the C7β position is one of the rare reactions that allow the
production of value-added precursors in the synthesis of ursodeoxycholic acid and other …

Carbon catabolite repression (CCR) enables preferential utilization of easily metabolizable
carbon sources, implying the presence of mechanisms to ensure discriminatory gene …

The white koji fungus, Aspergillus luchuensis mut. kawachii, is used in the production of
shochu, a traditional Japanese distilled spirit. White koji fungus plays an important role in the …

Due to its acetate content, the pyrolytic aqueous condensate (PAC) formed during the fast
pyrolysis of wheat straw could provide an inexpensive substrate for microbial fermentation …

Wild fungal strain-employing, cellulase production bio-processes require 17-fold higher
quantities of lignocelluloses than biofuel production. Globally-available, conventional …

Colletotrichum lindemuthianum is a phytopathogenic fungus that causes anthracnose in
common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and presents a great diversity of pathotypes with …