History of the International Symposium on Fungal Stress – ISFUS, a dream come true!
This article reviews the three first ISFUS and prospects for the future meetings. Although ISFUS was born as a small family organized meeting, since the first meeting, ISFUS has achieved great success receiving very important research grants from FAPESP, FAPEG, and CAPES to bring the international scientists, Most speakers have published an article related to their talks in a special issue in leading journals in the field. In the first meeting all speakers published a special issue in Current Genetics. From the second and third meeting, articles from the speakers were published in two special issues in the top mycology jou...
Source: Fungal Biology - February 20, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Selective isolation of agents of chromoblastomycosis from insect-associated environmental sources
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Bruna Jacomel Favoreto De Souza Lima, Morgana Ferreira Voidaleski, Renata Rodrigues Gomes, Gheniffer Fornari, Jade Mariane Barbosa Soares, Amanda Bombassaro, Gabriela Xavier Schneider, Bruna Da Silva Soley, Conceição de Maria Pedrozo e Silva De Azevedo, Cristiano Menezes, Leandro Ferreira Moreno, Derlene Attili-Angelis, Débora Do Rocio Klisiowicz, Sybren De Hoog, Vânia Aparecida VicenteAbstractChromoblastomycosis is a neglected disease characterized by cutaneous, subcutaneous, or disseminated lesions. It is considered an occupational in...
Source: Fungal Biology - February 14, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
A MADS-box transcription factor FoRlm1 regulates aerial hyphal growth, oxidative stress, cell wall biosynthesis and virulence in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense
In this study, we identified the MADS-box transcription factor FoRlm1 that is conserved among mitogen-activated protein kinases. Our data revealed that FoRlm1 is essential for aerial hyphal growth and virulence. Transcriptional analysis revealed that FoRlm1 deletion altered the expression of anti-oxidant enzymes, chitin synthases, fusaric acid (FA), and beauvericin biosynthesis genes. Furthermore, FoRlm1 deletion promoted tolerance to Congo red and increased sensitivity to hydrogen peroxide. Transcriptome analysis of ΔFoRlm1 mutant and wild-type strain indicated that the expression of many genes associated with fungal phy...
Source: Fungal Biology - February 14, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Metallic and metalloid elements in various developmental stages of Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Jerzy Falandysz, Anetta Hanć, Danuta Barałkiewicz, Ji Zhang, Roland TreuAbstractThere is growing evidence that mushrooms (fruiting bodies) can be suitable for biogeochemical prospecting for minerals and as indicators of heavy metal and radioactive contaminants in the terrestrial environment. Apart from the nutritional aspect, knowledge of accumulation dynamics and distribution of elements in fruiting bodies, from emergence to senescence, is essential as is standardization when choosing mushroom species as potential bioindicators and for mo...
Source: Fungal Biology - February 2, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
The high-affinity phosphodiesterase PcPdeH is involved in the polarized growth and pathogenicity of Phytophthora capsici
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Xiaonian Li, Yong Liu, Xinqiu Tan, Delong Li, Xinyu Yang, Xin Zhang, Deyong ZhangAbstractThe cAMP signaling pathway has been shown to be important in controlling morphological changes and pathogenicity in plant pathogens. In the present study, we identified PcPdeH, a gene encoding a high-affinity phosphodiesterase (PDE), which is a key regulator of the cAMP signaling pathway. To elucidate the function of PcPdeH, PcPdeH-knockout mutants were obtained using a type II CRISPR/Cas9 system in Phytophthora capsici. The knockout transformants of PcP...
Source: Fungal Biology - February 2, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
The Vta1 transcriptional regulator is required for microsclerotia melanization in Verticillium dahliae
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Rebekka Harting, Annalena Höfer, Van-Tuan Tran, Lisa-Maria Weinhold, Sina Barghahn, Rabea Schlüter, Gerhard H. BrausAbstractMany fungi are able to produce resting structures, which ensure survival and protect them against various stresses in their habitat such as exposure to UV light, temperature variations, drought as well as changing pH and nutrient conditions. Verticillium dahliae is a plant pathogenic fungus that forms melanized resting structures, called microsclerotia, for survival of time periods without a host. These highly stress ...
Source: Fungal Biology - February 2, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Peculiar genomic traits in the stress-adapted cryptoendolithic Antarctic fungus Friedmanniomyces endolithicus
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Claudia Coleine, Sawyer Masonjones, Katja Sterflinger, Silvano Onofri, Laura Selbmann, Jason E. StajichAbstractFriedmanniomyces endolithicus is a highly melanized fungus endemic to the Antarctic, occurring exclusively in endolithic communities of the ice-free areas of the Victoria Land, including the McMurdo Dry Valleys, the coldest and most hyper-arid desert on Earth and accounted as the Martian analogue on our planet. F. endolithicus is highly successful in these inhospitable environments, and is the most widespread and commonly isolated s...
Source: Fungal Biology - January 31, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
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Publication date: February 2020Source: Fungal Biology, Volume 124, Issue 2Author(s): (Source: Fungal Biology)
Source: Fungal Biology - January 31, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Light Sensing in Plant- and Rock-associated Black Fungi
Publication date: Available online 25 January 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Julia Schumacher, Anna GorbushinaAbstractFungi that share light-flooded habitats with phototrophs may profit from their excess photosynthetic products. But to cope with sunlight-associated stresses [e.g. high temperatures, UV radiation with associated DNA damage, accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), desiccation and osmotic stresses] it is important for fungi to accurately sense and respond to changes in light. To test the hypothesis that light is an environmental cue that Ascomycota use to coordinate growth, stress responses as wel...
Source: Fungal Biology - January 26, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Thoughts on the evolution of Core Environmental Responses in yeasts
Publication date: Available online 16 January 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Alistair J.P. Brown, Daniel E. Larcombe, Arnab PradhanAbstractThe model yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, display Core Environmental Responses (CERs) that include the induction of a core set of stress genes in response to diverse environmental stresses. CERs underlie the phenomenon of stress cross-protection, whereby exposure to one type of stress can provide protection against subsequent exposure to a second type of stress. CERs have probably arisen through the accumulation, over evolutionary time, of protectiv...
Source: Fungal Biology - January 17, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Serendipity in the wrestle between Trichoderma and Metarhizium
Publication date: Available online 16 January 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Edgar Q.A. Medina, Ariel S. Oliveira, Humberto R. Medina, Drauzio E.N. RangelAbstractThe fungal species Trichoderma is frequently found in soil antagonizing plant-pathogenic fungi as well as parasitizing plant-pathogenic nematodes. Metarhizium species are insect-pathogenic fungi that are used throughout the world to control agricultural insect pests. Here, we determine whether the antagonism (A) of T. atroviride to M. robertsii during growth and spore formation can impact the stress biology of M. robertsii conidia. Cultures of M. robertsii w...
Source: Fungal Biology - January 17, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Identification and characterization of a DevR-interacting protein in Aspergillus oryzae
In this study, to further explore the function of DevR, its interaction proteins were screened by a yeast two-hybrid assay. An A. oryzae cDNA library was transformed into the Y187 strain by using the SMART technique and the homologous recombination method, and then hybridized witha constructed DevR bait plasmid introducing strain to obtain positive clones. Through sequencing analysis, the potential interaction proteins of DevR were determined. Among them, an AO090701000363 gene-encoding protein (named DipA), which was predicted to be a basic leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factor, was a possible candidate. Phenotypic a...
Source: Fungal Biology - January 15, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
On the role of the global regulator RlcA in red-light sensing in Aspergillus nidulans
Publication date: Available online 10 January 2020Source: Fungal BiologyAuthor(s): Zhenzhong Yu, Jennifer Huebner, Satur Herrero, Victor Gourain, Reinhard FischerAbstractA large proportion of fungal genomes are under the control of light. Most fungi employ complex light sensing systems, consisting of red-, blue, and in some cases green-light photoreceptors. Here we studied the light response in Aspergillus nidulans. In a genetic screen, followed by whole-genome sequencing we identified a global regulator, which appears to be involved in chromatin structure modification. We therefore named the protein RlcA (regulator of lig...
Source: Fungal Biology - January 11, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Characterization of brown film formed by Lentinula edodes
This study provides a cytological foundation for evaluating the regulation of brown film formation in L. edodes. (Source: Fungal Biology)
Source: Fungal Biology - January 9, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Genome comparison and transcriptome analysis of the invasive brown root rot pathogen, Phellinus noxius, from different geographic regions reveals potential enzymes associated with degradation of different wood substrates
This study highlights the vast suite of decomposing enzymes produced by P. noxius, which suggests potential for degrading diverse wood substrates, even from temperate host trees. This information contributes to our understanding of pathogen ecology, mechanisms of wood decomposition, and pathogenic/saprophytic lifestyle. (Source: Fungal Biology)
Source: Fungal Biology - January 9, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: research
