Invasive fungal infection is an under recognized and emerging global health threat.
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the first ever list of health …

Aflatoxins are among the principal mycotoxins that contaminate economically important food
and feed crops. Aflatoxin B1 is the most potent naturally occurring carcinogen known and is …

Thymol is a natural plant-derived compound that has been widely used in pharmaceutical
and food preservation applications. However, the antifungal mechanism for thymol against …

Penicillium digitatum is the major source of postharvest decay in citrus fruits worldwide. This
fungus shows a limited host range, being able to infect mainly mature fruit belonging to the …

There is extensive and unequivocal evidence that secondary metabolism in filamentous
fungi and plants is associated with oxidative stress. In support of this idea, transcription …

We characterized the oxidative stress response of Candida glabrata to better understand the
virulence of this fungal pathogen. C. glabrata could withstand higher concentrations of H2O2 …

Oxidative stress is recognized as a trigger of different metabolic events in all organisms.
Various factors correlated with oxidation, such as the β-oxidation of fatty acids and their …

While there has been significant progress characterizing the 'symbiotic toolkit'of
ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi, how host specificity may be encoded into ECM fungal …

Biogenic volatile organic compounds hold remarkable potential for controlling fungal decay
in agro-and food products. Recently, we reported that linalool, the major volatile component …

Fungi utilize a phosphorelay system coupled to a MAP kinase module for sensing and
processing environmental signals. In Aspergillus nidulans, response regulator SskA …