Environmental concerns have focused attention on natural forms of disease control as
potentially safe and effective alternatives to chemical pesticides. This has led to increased …

Several Aspergillus species, in particular Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus oryzae, are
widely used as protein production hosts in various biotechnological applications. In order to …

Strains of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica that contain viral double-
stranded RNAs often exhibit reduced virulence. Such hypovirulent strains act as biocontrol …

NPS6, encoding a nonribosomal peptide synthetase, is a virulence determinant in the maize
(Zea mays) pathogen Cochliobolus heterostrophus and is involved in tolerance to H2O2 …

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) …

The role of RNA silencing as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungi was examined by
testing the effect of dicer gene disruptions on mycovirus infection of the chestnut blight …

A Src homology 3 (SH3) region is a sequence of approximately 50 amino acids found in
many nonreceptor tyrosine kinases and other proteins. Deletion of the SH3 region from the …

The filamentous fungus Alternaria alternata produces melanin, a black pigment, from acetate
via 1, 8-dihydroxynaphthalene. To isolate a fungal gene required for melanin biosynthesis …

We have used the restriction enzyme-mediated integration insertional mutagenesis
procedure to tag the Tox1 locus in the filamentous Ascomycete Cochliobolus …

To understand better the control of DNA methylation, we cloned and characterized the dim‐2
gene of Neurospora crassa, the only eukaryotic gene currently known in which mutations …