Invasive fungal infections pose an important threat to public health and are an under-
recognized component of antimicrobial resistance, an emerging crisis worldwide. Across a …

RNA silencing is a well-established antiviral immunity system in plants, in which small RNAs
guide Argonaute proteins to targets in viral RNA or DNA, resulting in virus repression. Virus …

Botrytis cinerea, a widespread plant pathogen with a necrotrophic lifestyle, causes gray
mold disease in many crops. Massive secretion of enzymes and toxins was long considered …

Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) is a phloem-feeding global agricultural pest belonging to the order
Hemiptera. Foliar application of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) represents an attractive …

Plant cells accumulate small RNA molecules that regulate plant development, genome
stability, and environmental responses. These small RNAs fall into three major classes …

Nanotechnology offers potential solutions for sustainable agriculture, including increasing
nutrient utilization efficiency, improving the efficacy of pest management, mitigating the …

Plants use extracellular vesicles (EVs) to transport small RNAs (sRNAs) into their fungal
pathogens and silence fungal virulence-related genes through a phenomenon called 'cross …

The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture …

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced mainly by fungi belonging to the genera
Aspergillus, Fusarium, Penicillium, Claviceps, and Alternaria that contaminate basic food …

Recent discoveries show that fungi can take up environmental RNA, which can then silence
fungal genes through environmental RNA interference. This discovery prompted the …