Fungal viruses unveiled: a comprehensive review of mycoviruses

B Hough, E Steenkamp, B Wingfield, D Read - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mycoviruses (viruses of fungi) are ubiquitous throughout the fungal kingdom and are
currently classified into 23 viral families and the genus botybirnavirus by the International …

Ganoderma boninense: general characteristics of pathogenicity and methods of control

YW Khoo, KP Chong - Frontiers in plant science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ganoderma boninense (G. boninense) is a soil-borne fungus threatening oil palm at the
present. It causes basal stem rot disease on oil palm. Within six months, this fungus can …

[HTML][HTML] The good, the bad and the cryptic: The multifaceted roles of mycoviruses and their potential applications for a sustainable agriculture

HA Khan, L Nerva, MF Bhatti - Virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mycoviruses are natural inhabitants of fungi and have been identified in almost all fungal
taxonomic groups. Mycoviruses that infect phytopathogenic fungi are now becoming a hot …

PlantPAD: a platform for large-scale image phenomics analysis of disease in plant science

X Dong, K Zhao, Q Wang, X Wu, Y Huang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Plant disease, a huge burden, can cause yield loss of up to 100% and thus reduce food
security. Actually, smart diagnosing diseases with plant phenomics is crucial for recovering …

Hypovirulence-associated mycovirus epidemics cause pathogenicity degeneration of Beauveria bassiana in the field

Z Zhang, W Guo, Y Lu, Q Kang, L Sui, H Liu, Y Zhao… - Virology Journal, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The entomogenous fungus Beauveria bassiana is used as a biological
insecticide worldwide, wild B. bassiana strains with high pathogenicity in the field play an …

[HTML][HTML] Importance of pathobiomes to the success of microbial weed biocontrol agents

MR Fulcher, MA Tancos, RC Mueller, M Tannières - Biological Control, 2024 - Elsevier
The role of microbial communities in the establishment of plant pathogens introduced to new
environments as weed biocontrol agents is relatively unexplored. Substantial evidence from …

Characterization of the First Alternavirus Identified in Fusarium avenaceum, the Causal Agent of Potato Dry Rot

X Zhang, C Wu, H Hua, Q Cai, X Wu - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
A novel virus with a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) genome was isolated from Fusarium
avenaceum strain GS-WW-224, the causal agent of potato dry rot. The virus has been …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental verification of strain-dependent relationship between mycovirus and its fungal host

M Kuroki, T Yaguchi, S Urayama, D Hagiwara - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi. Unlike mammalian infectious viruses, their life
cycle does not generally have an extracellular stage, and a symbiosis-like relationship is …

Optical excitation-induced ultrafast amorphization in the Y-Sb-Te alloy system: Insights from real-time time-dependent DFT with molecular dynamics calculations

L Chen, A Cui, M Li, S Li, S Gong, K Jiang, J Zhang… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In general, shortening the laser pulse width can suppress thermal dissipation to allow for
sub-picosecond phase change during amorphization, yet there is no consistent evidence for …

Mycoviral gene-incorporating phytopathogenic fungi: a biocontrol agent

T Das, A Prasad, A Dey - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Fungal pathogens cause devastating agroeconomic losses. Chemical fungicides are used
to control fungal diseases, although this is not an ecofriendly approach. A recent study by …