Industrial use of cell wall degrading enzymes: the fine line between production strategy and economic feasibility

M Giovannoni, G Gramegna, M Benedetti… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes (CWDEs) are a heterogeneous group of enzymes including
glycosyl-hydrolases, oxidoreductases, lyases, and esterases. Microbes with degrading …

Accessory Chromosomes in Fusarium oxysporum

H Yang, H Yu, LJ Ma - Phytopathology, 2020 - Am Phytopath Society
Most genomes within the species complex of Fusarium oxysporum are organized into two
compartments: the core chromosomes (CCs) and accessory chromosomes (ACs). As …

Genomes and secretomes of Ascomycota fungi reveal diverse functions in plant biomass decomposition and pathogenesis

JF Challacombe, CN Hesse, LM Bramer, LA McCue… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background The dominant fungi in arid grasslands and shrublands are members of the
Ascomycota phylum. Ascomycota fungi are important drivers in carbon and nitrogen cycling …

Plant biomass degradation by fungi

MR Mäkelä, N Donofrio, RP de Vries - Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2014 - Elsevier
Plant biomass degradation by fungi has implications for several fields of science. The
enzyme systems employed by fungi for this are broadly used in various industrial sectors …

Homeobox Transcription Factors Are Required for Fungal Development and the Suppression of Host Defense Mechanisms in the Colletotrichum scovillei-Pepper …

T Fu, JH Han, JH Shin, H Song, J Ko, YH Lee, KT Kim… - Mbio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Colletotrichum scovillei, an ascomycete phytopathogenic fungus, is the main causal agent of
serious yield losses of economic crops worldwide. The fungus causes anthracnose disease …

De Novo Assembly and Phasing of Dikaryotic Genomes from Two Isolates of Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae, the Causal Agent of Oat Crown Rust

ME Miller, Y Zhang, V Omidvar, J Sperschneider… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Oat crown rust, caused by the fungus Pucinnia coronata f. sp. avenae, is a devastating
disease that impacts worldwide oat production. For much of its life cycle, P. coronata f. sp …

Recognition and defence of plant-infecting fungal pathogens

IML Saur, R Hückelhoven - Journal of Plant Physiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Attempted infections of plants with fungi result in diverse outcomes ranging from symptom-
less resistance to severe disease and even death of infected plants. The deleterious effect …

Variation in the morphology and effector profiles of Exserohilum turcicum isolates associated with the Northern Corn Leaf Blight of maize in Nigeria

FA Bankole, B Badu-Apraku, AO Salami, TDO Falade… - BMC Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Background Maize production in lowland agro-ecologies in West and Central Africa is
constrained by the fungus Exserohilum turcicum, causal agent of Northern Corn Leaf Blight …

Characterization of bacterial and fungal community dynamics by high-throughput sequencing (HTS) metabarcoding during flax dew-retting

C Djemiel, S Grec, S Hawkins - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Flax dew-retting is a key step in the industrial extraction of fibers from flax stems and is
dependent upon the production of a battery of hydrolytic enzymes produced by micro …

Gene deletion and constitutive expression of the pectate lyase gene 1 (MoPL1) lead to diminished virulence of Magnaporthe oryzae

A Wegner, F Casanova, M Loehrer, A Jordine… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Phytopathogenic fungi are known to secrete specific proteins which act as virulence factors
and promote host colonization. Some of them are enzymes with plant cell wall degradation …