Bacteria and fungi can form a range of physical associations that depend on various modes
of molecular communication for their development and functioning. These bacterial-fungal …

Many species of fungi and oomycetes are plant pathogens of great economic importance.
Over the past 7 years, the genomes of more than 30 of these filamentous plant pathogens …

Plant diseases caused by fungi and oomycetes pose an increasing threat to food security
and ecosystem health worldwide. These filamentous pathogens, while taxonomically …

Fungal plant pathogens secrete effector molecules to establish disease on their hosts, and
plants in turn use immune receptors to try to intercept these effectors. The tomato immune …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT; also known as lateral gene transfer) has had an important
role in eukaryotic genome evolution, but its importance is often overshadowed by the greater …

Plants produce a wide range of allelochemicals to defend against herbivore attack, and
generalist herbivores have evolved mechanisms to avoid, sequester, or detoxify a broad …

In natural conditions, mycorrhizal fungi are surrounded by complex microbial communities,
which modulate the mycorrhizal symbiosis. Here, the focus is on the so‐called 'mycorrhiza …

The genus Alternaria, alternarioid hyphomycetes, comprise a biologically, ecologically, and
morphologically rich group of fungi that has suffered from taxonomic flux for many years. The …

Molecular sequencing has helped resolve the phylogenetic relationships amongst the
diverse groups of algal, fungal-like and protist organisms that constitute the Chromalveolate …

The contribution of horizontal gene transfer to evolution has been controversial since it was
suggested to be a force driving evolution in the microbial world. In this paper, I review the …