Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), family Solanaceae, has become in the past fifty years
one of the most important and extensively grown horticultural crops in the Mediterranean …

Genome editing technology has rapidly evolved to knock-out genes, create targeted genetic
variation, install precise insertion/deletion and single nucleotide changes, and perform large …

Filamentous fungi play an important role in human health and industrial/agricultural
production. With the increasing number of full genomes available for fungal species, the …

Due to their biotechnological relevance as well as their importance as disease agents,
filamentous fungi and oomycetes have been prime candidates for genetic selection and in …

Many different experimental approaches have been applied to elaborate and study the
beneficial interactions between soil bacteria and plants. Some of these methods focus on …

Plants are susceptible to phytopathogens, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, which
cause colossal financial shortfalls (pre-and post-harvest) and threaten global food safety. To …

CRISPR-Cas mediated genome engineering has revolutionized functional genomics.
However, understanding of DNA repair following Cas-mediated DNA cleavage remains …

Trichoderma reesei has been explored intensively in the laboratory and on an industrial
scale for its highly potent cellulase secretion machinery since its characterization over 70 …

Filamentous fungi possess the capacity to produce a wide array of secondary metabolites
with diverse biological activities and structures, such as lovastatin and swainsonine. With the …

The interaction of fungal pathogens with their host requires a novel invading mechanism
and the presence of various virulence-associated components responsible for promoting the …