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Microbial Biocontrol Strategies for Ambrosia Beetles and Their Associated Phytopathogenic Fungi [PDF]
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Ambrosia beetles and their symbiotic fungi are causing severe damage in natural and agro-ecosystems worldwide, threatening the productivity of several important tree crops such as avocado.
Frédérique Reverchon +6 more
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Acquisition of fungi from the environment modifies ambrosia beetle mycobiome during invasion [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Microbial symbionts can play critical roles when their host attempts to colonize a new habitat. The lack of symbiont adaptation can in fact hinder the invasion process of their host.
Davide Rassati +2 more
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Lipids and small metabolites provisioned by ambrosia fungi to symbiotic beetles are phylogeny-dependent, not convergent. [PDF]
ISME J, 2020 Abstract Long-term symbiotic associations often lead to reciprocal adaptation between the involved entities. One of the main challenges for studies of such symbioses is differentiating adaptation from neutral processes and phylogenetic background.
Huang YT, Skelton J, Hulcr J.
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mSystems, 2020 The bacterial and fungal community involved in ambrosia beetle fungiculture remains poorly studied compared to the famous fungus-farming ants and termites.
L. A. Ibarra-Juarez +15 more
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New Fungus-Insect Symbiosis: Culturing, Molecular, and Histological Methods Determine Saprophytic Polyporales Mutualists of Ambrosiodmus Ambrosia Beetles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Ambrosia symbiosis is an obligate, farming-like mutualism between wood-boring beetles and fungi. It evolved at least 11 times and includes many notorious invasive pests.
You Li +6 more
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Jurnal Penelitian Hasil Hutan (Journal of Forest Products Research), 2017 freshly cut logs of tusam (Pinus merkusii) are very susceptible to the infestation of the ambrosia beetle Xyleborus sp. and blue stain fungi. An observation showed that both wood deteriorating organisms might infest a same log simultaneously,
Paimin Sukartana
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Redbay Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)
EDIS, 2011 Ambrosia beetles are wood-degrading insects that live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi. Usually we consider ambrosia beetles beneficial because they accelerate the decay of dead trees, which is important for nutrient cycling in healthy ...
Rajinder Mann +3 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Transcription factors in phytopathogenic fungi are key players due to their gene expression regulation leading to fungal growth and pathogenicity. The KilA-N family encompasses transcription factors unique to fungi, and the Bqt4 subfamily is included in ...
Nohemí Carreras-Villaseñor +7 more
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Tunisian Journal of Plant Protection, 2018 Cork oak (Quercus suber) is a unique species of the Western Mediterranean region and over the last decades it has been threatened by several pests and diseases.
Amani Bellahirech +3 more
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AMB Express, 2020 Despite the threat of Fusarium dieback posed due to ambrosia fungi cultured by ambrosia beetles such as Euwallacea spp., the wood-degradation mechanisms utilized by ambrosia fungi are not fully understood.
Kiyota Sakai +10 more
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