In 1917, a food chemist named James Currie made a promising discovery: any strain of the
filamentous mould Aspergillus niger would produce high concentrations of citric acid when …

Covering: 2005 to 2011 This review studies the impact of whole genome sequencing on
Aspergillus secondary metabolite research. There has been a proliferation of many new …

The EUROFUNG network is a virtual centre of multidisciplinary expertise in the field of fungal
biotechnology. The first academic-industry Think Tank was hosted by EUROFUNG to …

Organisms exhibit extensive variation in ecological niche breadth, from very narrow
(specialists) to very broad (generalists). Two general paradigms have been proposed to …

A gene cluster encoding the biosynthesis of the fungal tropolone stipitatic acid was
discovered in Talaromyces stipitatus (Penicillium stipitatum) and investigated by targeted …

Xanthones are a class of molecules that bind to a number of drug targets and possess a
myriad of biological properties. An understanding of xanthone biosynthesis at the genetic …

Abstract The Aspergillus Genome Database (AspGD; http://www. aspgd. org) is a freely
available, web-based resource for researchers studying fungi of the genus Aspergillus …

Fungi are prolific producers of secondary metabolites (SMs) that show a variety of biological
activities. Recent advances in genome sequencing have shown that fungal genomes harbor …

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 …

Background Gene regulation underlies fungal physiology and therefore is a major factor in
fungal biodiversity. Analysis of genome sequences has revealed a large number of putative …