Fungi are a highly diverse group of heterotrophic eukaryotes characterized by the absence
of phagotrophy and the presence of a chitinous cell wall. While unicellular fungi are far from …

Fungi and plants are rich sources of thousands of secondary metabolites. The genetically
coded possibilities for secondary metabolite production, the stimuli of the production, and …

Recent discoveries show that fungi can take up environmental RNA, which can then silence
fungal genes through environmental RNA interference. This discovery prompted the …

The Basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom Fungi and is second in
species numbers to the Ascomycota. The present work provides an overview of all validly …

Rice sheath blight disease, caused by the basidiomycetous necrotroph Rhizoctonia solani,
became one of the major threats to the rice cultivation worldwide, especially after the …

Sheath blight caused by necrotrophic fungus Rhizoctonia solani Kühn is one of the most
serious diseases of rice. Use of high yielding semi dwarf cultivars with dense planting and …

Rhizoctonia solani is a widely distributed phytopathogen that causes banded leaf and
sheath blight in maize and sheath blight in rice. Here, we identified an F-box protein …

Rhizoctonia solani, the most important species within the genus Rhizoctonia, is a soilborne
plant pathogen with considerable diversity in cultural morphology, host range and …

Rice feeds more than half of the world's population. Rice blast, caused by the fungal
pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae, and bacterial blight, caused by the bacterial pathogen …

Main conclusion Rice sheath blight research should prioritise optimising biological control
approaches, identification of resistance gene mechanisms and application in genetic …