Phytopathogenic fungi need to secrete different hydrolytic enzymes to break down complex
polysaccharides in the plant cell wall in order to enter the host and develop the disease …

Natural products derived from microbes are crucial innovations that would help in reaching
sustainability development goals worldwide while achieving bioeconomic growth …

Stem vascular cambium cells in forest trees produce wood for materials and energy. WOX4
affects the proliferation of such cells in Populus. Here we show that Ptr WOX4a is the most …

Covering: up to 2019 Fungi produce a remarkable diversity of secondary metabolites: small,
bioactive molecules not required for growth but which are essential to their ecological …

Wood remains the world's most abundant and renewable resource for timber and pulp and
is an alternative to fossil fuels. Understanding the molecular regulation of wood formation …

In order to prevent emerging infective diseases (EIDs), which increasingly threaten trees of
agro-forest and urban ecosystems, a thorough understanding of the factors causing them is …

The world's forests face unprecedented threats from invasive insects and pathogens that can
cause large irreversible damage to the ecosystems. This threatens the world's capacity to …

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 …

Increasing human impacts on forests, including unintentional movement of pathogens,
climate change, and large-scale intensive plantations, are associated with an …

In this article, we describe the presence of genes encoding close homologues of an
endogenous plant peptide, rapid alkalinization factor (RALF), within the genomes of 26 …