Filamentous fungi have been of great interest because of their excellent ability as cell
factories to manufacture useful products for human beings. The development of genetic …

Maintenance of a steamlined genome is probably important to a free-living fungus. The
period between fertilization and karyogamy in the life cycle of Neurospora and related fungi …

The low rate of homologous recombination exhibited by wild-type strains of filamentous
fungi has hindered development of high-throughput gene knockout procedures for this …

An efficient transformation system for the cellulolytic filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei
has been developed. Transformation was obtained with plasmid carrying the dominant …

We constructed a chimeric plasmid carrying a complete copy of the trifunctional trpC gene
from the Ascomycete fungus Aspergillus nidulans. This plasmid, designated pHY201 …

Transformation with exogenous deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) now appears to be possible
with all fungal species, or at least all that can be grown in culture. This field of research is at …

Aspergillus niger grows poorly on acetamide as a nitrogen or carbon source and lacks
sequences detectably homologous to the amdS gene encoding the acetamidase of …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes fungal transformation based on the HmB
resistance gene of E. coli (hph) and the phleomycin resistance gene of S. hindustanus (ble) …

Mobile DNA, comprising both active and decaying copies of transposable elements (TEs), is
present in nearly all living organisms. Although fungal genomes tend to be significantly …

Relief of an auxotrophic requirement for uridine in Aspergillus nidulans strain G191 has
been achieved by transformation with a segment of Neurospora crassa DNA containing the …