Enzymatic processing of lignocellulosic biomass: principles, recent advances and perspectives

H Østby, LD Hansen, SJ Horn… - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Efficient saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass requires concerted development of a
pretreatment method, an enzyme cocktail and an enzymatic process, all of which are …

How a fungus shapes biotechnology: 100 years of Aspergillus niger research

TC Cairns, C Nai, V Meyer - Fungal biology and biotechnology, 2018 - Springer
In 1917, a food chemist named James Currie made a promising discovery: any strain of the
filamentous mould Aspergillus niger would produce high concentrations of citric acid when …

Cellobiose Dehydrogenase and a Copper-Dependent Polysaccharide Monooxygenase Potentiate Cellulose Degradation by Neurospora crassa

CM Phillips, WT Beeson IV, JH Cate… - ACS chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The high cost of enzymes for saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass is a major barrier to
the production of second generation biofuels. Using a combination of genetic and …

Plant cell wall deconstruction by ascomycete fungi

NL Glass, M Schmoll, JHD Cate… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Plant biomass degradation by fungi requires a diverse set of secreted enzymes and
significantly contributes to the global carbon cycle. Recent advances in genomic and …

Trichoderma–Plant–Pathogen Interactions: Advances in Genetics of Biological Control

M Mukherjee, PK Mukherjee, BA Horwitz… - Indian journal of …, 2012 - Springer
Trichoderma spp. are widely used in agriculture as biofungicides. Induction of plant defense
and mycoparasitism (killing of one fungus by another) are considered to be the most …

Cellulose degradation by polysaccharide monooxygenases

WT Beeson, VV Vu, EA Span… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Polysaccharide monooxygenases (PMOs), also known as lytic PMOs (LPMOs), enhance the
depolymerization of recalcitrant polysaccharides by hydrolytic enzymes and are found in the …

The Fungal Genetics Stock Center: a repository for 50 years of fungal genetics research

K McCluskey, A Wiest, M Plamann - Journal of biosciences, 2010 - Springer
Abstract The Fungal Genetics Stock Center (FGSC) was established in 1960 to ensure that
important strains used in early genetics research were available to subsequent generations …

Systems analysis of plant cell wall degradation by the model filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa

C Tian, WT Beeson, AT Iavarone… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa is a model laboratory organism, but in nature is
commonly found growing on dead plant material, particularly grasses. Using functional …

[HTML][HTML] Fungal extracellular polymeric substance matrices–highly specialized microenvironments that allow fungi to control soil organic matter decomposition …

MO De Beeck, P Persson, A Tunlid - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Filamentous fungi play a key role in the terrestrial carbon cycle as they are the primary
decomposers of lignocellulose in soil organic matter (SOM). Fungi secrete a wide range of …

Genome‐wide analysis of light‐inducible responses reveals hierarchical light signalling in Neurospora

CH Chen, CS Ringelberg, RH Gross, JC Dunlap… - The EMBO …, 2009 - embopress.org
White collar‐1 (WC‐1) and white collar‐2 (WC‐2) are essential for light‐mediated responses
in Neurospora crassa, but the molecular mechanisms underlying gene induction and the …