Conservation tillage is an extensively used agricultural practice in northern China that alters
soil texture and nutrient conditions, causing changes in the soil microbial community …

Stress-tolerant fungi that can thrive under various environmental extremes are highly
desirable for their application to biological control, as an alternative to chemicals for pest …

Abstract Background The ascomycete fungus Colletotrichum higginsianum causes
anthracnose disease of brassica crops and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Previous …

Rapid climate change threatens plant communities. While many studies address the impact
of climate change on plants and mechanisms of their resilience to climate stressors, the role …

Background Adaptive manipulation of animal behavior by parasites functions to increase
parasite transmission through changes in host behavior. These changes can range from …

Background In recent years, the genus Pestalotiopsis is receiving increasing attention, not
only because of its economic impact as a plant pathogen but also as a commonly isolated …

Fungi are the commonest pathogens of insects and crucial regulators of insect populations.
The rapid advance of genome technologies has revolutionized our understanding of …

We present a novel method to measure the local GC-content bias in genomes and a survey
of published fungal species. The method, enacted as “OcculterCut”(https://sourceforge …

Background Gene regulation underlies fungal physiology and therefore is a major factor in
fungal biodiversity. Analysis of genome sequences has revealed a large number of putative …

Microbial mutualists can profoundly modify host species ecology and evolution, by extension
altering interactions with other microbial species, including pathogens. Arbuscular …