Major biological control strategies for plant pathogens

MA Pandit, J Kumar, S Gulati, N Bhandari, P Mehta… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Food security has become a major concern worldwide in recent years due to ever increasing
population. Providing food for the growing billions without disturbing environmental balance …

Mycoviruses as a part of the global virome: Diversity, evolutionary links and lifestyle

MA Ayllón, EJ Vainio - Advances in virus research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of mycovirus diversity, evolution, horizontal gene transfer and shared
ancestry with viruses infecting distantly related hosts, such as plants and arthropods, has …

Horizontal and Vertical Transmission of a Mycovirus Closely Related to the Partitivirus RhsV717 That Confers Hypovirulence in Rhizoctonia solani

A Sun, L Zhao, Y Sun, Y Chen, C Li, W Dong, G Yang - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rhizoctonia solani virus717 (RhsV717) was isolated from the Rhizoctonia solani (R. solani)
AG-2 strain Rhs717. This study isolated a virus designated as Rhizoctonia solani partitivirus …

[HTML][HTML] The good, the bad and the cryptic: The multifaceted roles of mycoviruses and their potential applications for a sustainable agriculture

HA Khan, L Nerva, MF Bhatti - Virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mycoviruses are natural inhabitants of fungi and have been identified in almost all fungal
taxonomic groups. Mycoviruses that infect phytopathogenic fungi are now becoming a hot …

[HTML][HTML] Interspecific spread of dsRNA mycoviruses in entomogenous fungi Beauveria spp.

S Ning, Q Kang, H Liu, Y Lu, L Sui, W Xu, W Shi, Q Li… - Virus Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Mycoviruses can spread interspecifically and intraspecifically in plant pathogenic fungi, as
well as spreading intraspecifically in entomogenous fungi, especially Beauveria bassiana …

The schizotrophic lifestyle of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

Q Shang, D Jiang, J Xie, J Cheng… - Molecular Plant …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a cosmopolitan and typical necrotrophic phytopathogenic fungus
that infects hundreds of plant species. Because no cultivars highly resistant to S …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying transcription factors associated with Fusarium graminearum virus 2 accumulation in Fusarium graminearum by phenome-based investigation

G Kwon, J Yu, KH Kim - Virus Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Fusarium graminearum virus 2 (FgV2) infection induces phenotypic changes like
reduction of growth rate and virulence with an alteration of the transcriptome, including …

Characterization of Transcriptional Responses to Genomovirus Infection of the White Mold Fungus, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

CJ Pedersen, SYL Marzano - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soybean leaf-associated gemygorvirus-1 (SlaGemV− 1) is a CRESS-DNA virus classified in
the family Genomoviridae, which causes hypovirulence and abolishes sclerotia formation in …

Molecular characterization and transcriptomic analysis of a novel polymycovirus in the fungus Talaromyces amestolkiae

L Teng, S Chen, Z Hu, J Chen, H Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Talaromyces amestolkiae is an important fungal species owing to its ubiquity in soils, plants,
air, and food. In this study, we identified a novel six-segmented polymycovirus, Talaromyces …

Digital gene expression profiling of the transcriptional response to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and its antagonistic bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens in soybean

J Liu, X Hu, H He, X Zhang, J Guo, J Bai… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Soybean Sclerotinia stem rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a common disease in
soybean, and effective biological control is urgently needed. We have previously confirmed …