Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture

MC Fisher, SJ Gurr, CA Cuomo, DS Blehert, H Jin… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Fusarium wilt of banana: current knowledge on epidemiology and research needs toward sustainable disease management

M Dita, M Barquero, D Heck, ESG Mizubuti… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Banana production is seriously threatened by Fusarium wilt (FW), a disease caused by the
soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc). In the mid-twentieth century FW …

[HTML][HTML] Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems

G Gkoutselis, S Rohrbach, J Harjes, M Obst… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Microplastic (MP) is a pervasive pollutant in nature that is colonised by diverse groups of
microbes, including potentially pathogenic species. Fungi have been largely neglected in …

Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex

DM Geiser, AMS Al-Hatmi, T Aoki, T Arie… - …, 2021 - Am Phytopath Society
Scientific communication is facilitated by a data-driven, scientifically sound taxonomy that
considers the end-user's needs and established successful practice. In 2013, the Fusarium …

Improved prediction of fungal effector proteins from secretomes with EffectorP 2.0

J Sperschneider, PN Dodds… - Molecular plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plant‐pathogenic fungi secrete effector proteins to facilitate infection. We describe extensive
improvements to EffectorP, the first machine learning classifier for fungal effector prediction …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution and genome architecture in fungal plant pathogens

M Möller, EH Stukenbrock - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
The fungal kingdom comprises some of the most devastating plant pathogens. Sequencing
the genomes of fungal pathogens has shown a remarkable variability in genome size and …

Biological control of plant diseases–What has been achieved and what is the direction?

DB Collinge, DF Jensen, M Rabiey, S Sarrocco… - Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The global sustainability agenda is increasing the demand for reduction in inputs into
agricultural production while maintaining profitable yield of quality products. Plant diseases …

Fungal effectors and plant susceptibility

L Lo Presti, D Lanver, G Schweizer… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Plants can be colonized by fungi that have adopted highly diverse lifestyles, ranging from
symbiotic to necrotrophic. Colonization is governed in all systems by hundreds of secreted …

Current Status of Fusarium oxysporum Formae Speciales and Races

V Edel-Hermann, C Lecomte - Phytopathology, 2019 - Am Phytopath Society
The Fusarium oxysporum species complex includes both plant pathogenic and
nonpathogenic strains, which are commonly found in soils. F. oxysporum has received …

[HTML][HTML] Biocontrol by Fusarium oxysporum Using Endophyte-Mediated Resistance

FJ De Lamo, FLW Takken - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Interactions between plants and the root-colonizing fungus Fusarium oxysporum (Fo) can be
neutral, beneficial, or detrimental for the host. Fo is infamous for its ability to cause wilt, root …