Fungi took a unique evolutionary route to multicellularity: Seven key challenges for fungal multicellular life
Publication date: Available online 11 August 2020Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): László G. Nagy, Torda Varga, Árpád Csernetics, Máté Virágh (Source: Fungal Biology Reviews)
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - August 13, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Parengyodontium album, a frequently reported fungal species in the cultural heritage environment
Publication date: Available online 22 July 2020Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Johann Leplat, Alexandre François, Faisl Bousta (Source: Fungal Biology Reviews)
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - July 22, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
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Publication date: June 2020Source: Fungal Biology Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 2Author(s): (Source: Fungal Biology Reviews)
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - May 21, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Penicillium roqueforti: an overview of its genetics, physiology, metabolism and biotechnological applications
Publication date: Available online 10 April 2020Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Emmanuel Coton, Monika Coton, Nolwenn Hymery, Jérôme Mounier, Jean-Luc Jany (Source: Fungal Biology Reviews)
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - April 11, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
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Publication date: March 2020Source: Fungal Biology Reviews, Volume 34, Issue 1Author(s): (Source: Fungal Biology Reviews)
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - February 15, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Using Species Distribution Models For Fungi
Publication date: Available online 14 February 2020Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Tianxiao Hao, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Tom W. May, José J. Lahoz-Monfort, Jane ElithAbstractSpecies distribution models (SDMs) are an emerging tool in the study of fungi, and their use is expanding across species and research topics. To summarise progress to date and to highlight important considerations for future users, we review 283 studies that apply SDMs to fungi. We found that macrofungi, lichens, and pathogenic microfungi are most often studied. While many studies only aim to model species response to environmental covari...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - February 14, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Inside-out: from endosomes to extracellular vesicles in fungal RNA transport
Publication date: Available online 10 February 2020Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Seomun Kwon, Constance Tisserant, Markus Tulinski, Arne Weiberg, Michael FeldbrüggeAbstractMembrane-coupled RNA transport is an emerging theme in fungal biology. This review focuses on the RNA cargo and mechanistic details of transport via two inter-related sets of organelles: endosomes and extracellular vesicles for intra- and intercellular RNA transfer. Simultaneous transport and translation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) on the surface of shuttling endosomes is a conserved process pertinent to highly polarised eukaryotic cells, such ...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - February 11, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Mucoromycota: going to the roots of plant-interacting fungi
Publication date: Available online 16 January 2020Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Paola Bonfante, Francesco VeniceAbstractMany fungi (from micro-to macromycetes) interact with plants as a relevant component of plant microbiota. The aim of the review is to focus on the early diverging fungi (Mucoromycota) whose members establish a wide range of beneficial or pathogenic interactions with their green hosts, depending on their phylogenetic position. While Mortierellomycotina are mostly identified as rhizospheric microbes, Glomeromycotina are acknowledged as the most widespread arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, leading to ...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - January 17, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Entomopathogenic Fusarium species: a review of their potential for the biological control of insects, implications and prospects
Publication date: Available online 26 December 2019Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Ana Carla da Silva Santos, Athaline Gonçalves Diniz, Patricia Vieira Tiago, Neiva Tinti de OliveiraAbstractThe genus Fusarium is noted for including important plant pathogens and mycotoxin producers. Furthermore, many Fusarium lineages have been reported to be efficient in controlling insects and to exhibit promising characteristics for agricultural pest control such as causing high mortality rates and having fast action and abundant sporulation. In this review we present a survey of peer-reviewed papers published from 2000 to 2019...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - December 27, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Dual Purpose of ligninolytic- basidiomycetes: mycoremediation of bioethanol distillation vinasse coupled to sustainable bio-based compounds production
Publication date: Available online 23 December 2019Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Pablo M. Ahmed, Lucía I.C. de Figueroa, Hipólito F. PajotAbstractAgro-industrial wastes consist of various agriculture and food industry residues produced worldwide at an estimated rate of a thousand million tons per year. Vinasse is the main wastewater resulting from sugarcane bioethanol production. This agro-industrial effluent is highly polluting and, when discarded with no previous treatment, may cause nutrient imbalance and salt saturation in the soil as well as a reduction in photosynthesis in aquatic ecosystems. Environment...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - December 24, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Systematics is crucial for the traditional Chinese medicinal studies and industry of macrofungi
Publication date: Available online 31 October 2019Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Li-Wei ZhouAbstractRecently, it has been indicated that systematics is of no value to the traditional Chinese medicinal studies and industry of macrofungi. As a fungal taxonomist, I use three genera of the most famous medicinal macrofungi, viz. Sanghuangporus, Ganoderma and Ophiocordyceps, as examples to rebut this opinion. Generally, the well-established systematics are helpful in using correct Latin names for fungal species in medicinal studies; furthermore, the resulting medicinal functions can be exactly matched to a particular s...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - November 1, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Twenty years of research on cerato-platanin family proteins: clues, conclusions, and unsolved issues
Publication date: Available online 29 October 2019Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Simone Luti, Luca Sella, Alessandra Quarantin, Luigia Pazzagli, Ivan BaccelliAbstractTwenty years of research on cerato-platanin family proteins (CPPs) have led to some clear conclusions: CPPs are exclusively present in the fungal kingdom and possess an outstanding capacity to stimulate the immune system of plants. Recent discoveries have highlighted remarkable structural and functional similarities between CPPs and expansins, a class of non-enzymatic proteins found in both plants and microbes possessing loosening ability on the cell...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - October 31, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Micronutrient transport in mycorrhizal symbiosis; zinc steals the show
Publication date: Available online 30 September 2019Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Joske Ruytinx, Arjun Kafle, Muhammad Usman, Laura Coninx, Sabine D. Zimmermann, Kevin GarciaAbstractMycorrhizas are mutually beneficial associations between soil-borne fungi and plant roots. Mycorrhizal fungi provide their host plant with essential nutrients in exchange for sugars and/or lipids. Traditionally, transport and translocation of macronutrients, including nitrogen and phosphorus, throughout the fungal mycelium and towards the host plant are well studied. However, the regulation of nutrient exchange and their contribution...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - October 1, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research
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Publication date: June–September 2019Source: Fungal Biology Reviews, Volume 33, Issues 3–4Author(s): (Source: Fungal Biology Reviews)
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - September 13, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Fungal diversity from communities to genes
Publication date: Available online 10 July 2019Source: Fungal Biology ReviewsAuthor(s): Sara BrancoAbstractFungi are hyperdiverse organisms and assemble in complex communities, characterized by high levels of species richness, turnover, and endemism. However, the origins and maintenance of such high diversity and the role environments play in fungal adaptation are still elusive. Traditionally, efforts to understand fungal diversity in their environment have been divided between studies at the species level and below species level, with separate disciplines such as community ecology and population genetics working independe...
Source: Fungal Biology Reviews - July 12, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research
