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Complete Genome Sequences and Genome-Wide Characterization of Trichoderma Biocontrol Agents Provide New Insights into their Evolution and Variation in Genome Organization, Sexual Development, and Fungal-Plant Interactions

Microbiology Spectrum, 2021
Trichoderma spp. represent one of the most important fungal genera to mankind and in natural environments. The genus harbors prolific producers of wood-decaying enzymes, biocontrol agents against plant pathogens, plant-growth-promoting biofertilizers, as
Wan-Chen Li, Ting-Chan Lin, Chia-Ling Chen, Hou-Cheng Liu, Hisn-Nan Lin, Ju-Lan Chao, Cheng-Hsilin Hsieh, Hui-Fang Ni, Ruey-Shyang Chen, Ting-Fang Wang   +9 more
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Evolutionary dynamics of mating-type loci of Mycosphaerella spp. occurring on banana

, 2010
The devastating Sigatoka disease complex of banana is primarily caused by three closely related heterothallic fungi belonging to the genus Mycosphaerella: M. fijiensis, M. musicola, and M. eumusae.
Arzanlou, M., Zwiers, L.H., Crous, P.W.
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Genetic diversity and population structure of Ascochyta rabiei from the western Iranian Ilam and Kermanshah provinces using MAT and SSR markers

, 2010
Knowledge of genetic diversity in A. rabiei provides different levels of information that are important in the management of crop germplasm resources. Gene flow on a regional level indicates a significant potential risk for the regional spread of novel ...
Ellwood, S.R., Oliver, Richard, Mohammad Reza Naghavi, Lichtenzveig, Judith, Okhovat, S., Javannikkhah, M., Okhovat, S.M., Ellwood, Simon, Naghavi, M.R., Judith Lichtenzveig, Javannikhah, M., Naghavi, M., Khoshnood Nourollahi, Oliver, R.P., Simon R. Ellwood, Mohammad Javannikkhah, Richard P. Oliver, Nourollahi, K., Lichtenzveig, J., Sayed Mahmmod Okhovat   +19 more
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The general transcriptional repressor Tup1 is required for dimorphism and virulence in a fungal plant pathogen. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens, 2011
A critical step in the life cycle of many fungal pathogens is the transition between yeast-like growth and the formation of filamentous structures, a process known as dimorphism.
Alberto Elías-Villalobos, Alfonso Fernández-Álvarez, José I Ibeas   +2 more
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Transcription factors Mat2 and Znf2 operate cellular circuits orchestrating opposite- and same-sex mating in Cryptococcus neoformans.

PLoS Genetics, 2010
Cryptococcus neoformans is a human fungal pathogen that undergoes a dimorphic transition from a unicellular yeast to multicellular hyphae during opposite sex (mating) and unisexual reproduction (same-sex mating). Opposite- and same-sex mating are induced
Xiaorong Lin, Jennifer C Jackson, Marianna Feretzaki, Chaoyang Xue, Joseph Heitman   +4 more
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Comparative Genomics Suggests Primary Homothallism of Pneumocystis Species

mBio, 2015
Pneumocystis species are fungal parasites of mammal lungs showing host specificity. Pneumocystis jirovecii colonizes humans and causes severe pneumonia in immunosuppressed individuals.
João M. G. C. F. Almeida, Ousmane H. Cissé, Álvaro Fonseca, Marco Pagni, Philippe M. Hauser   +4 more
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Ga and Gß Proteins Regulate the Cyclic AMP Pathway That Is Required for Development and Pathogenicity of the Phytopathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola

, 2009
We identified and functionally characterized genes encoding three G alpha proteins and one G beta protein in the dimorphic fungal wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola, which we designated MgGpa1, MgGpa2, MgGpa3, and MgGpb1, respectively.
Lee, T.A.J., van der, Wit, P.J.G.M., de, Kema, G.H.J., M'Barek, S., Ben, Waalwijk, C., Mehrabi, A.   +5 more
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Analyses of expressed sequence tags from the maize foliar pathogen Cercospora zeae-maydis identify novel genes expressed during vegetative, infectious, and reproductive growth

, 2008
Background The ascomycete fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis is an aggressive foliar pathogen of maize that causes substantial losses annually throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Dhillon, Braham, Bluhm, Burton H, Stephen B Goodwin, Kema, Gert HJ, Gert HJ Kema, Larry D Dunkle, Bluhm, B.H., Dunkle, Larry D, Goodwin Stephen B, Lindquist, E., Dunkle, L.D., Bluhm Burton H, Burton H Bluhm, Erika A Lindquist, Braham Dhillon, Lindquist Erika A, Lindquist, Erika A, Goodwin, S.B., Kema, G.H.J., Dunkle Larry D, Goodwin, Stephen B, Kema Gert HJ, Dhillon Braham   +22 more
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The plot thickens : haploid and triploid-like thalli, hybridization, and biased mating type ratios in Letharia [PDF]

, 2021
The study of the reproductive biology of lichen fungal symbionts has been traditionally challenging due to their complex lifestyles. Against the common belief of haploidy, a recent genomic study found a triploid-like signal in Letharia.
Spribille, Toby, Bergström, Linnea, Tuovinen, Veera, Nascimbene, Juri, Ament-Velásquez, Sandra Lorena, Yamamoto, Yoshikazu, Vanderpool, Dan, Johannesson, Hanna, Thor, Göran   +8 more
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Convergent evolution of chromosomal sex-determining regions in the animal and fungal kingdoms. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2004
Sexual identity is governed by sex chromosomes in plants and animals, and by mating type (MAT) loci in fungi. Comparative analysis of the MAT locus from a species cluster of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus revealed sequential evolutionary events ...
James A Fraser, Stephanie Diezmann, Ryan L Subaran, Andria Allen, Klaus B Lengeler, Fred S Dietrich, Joseph Heitman   +6 more
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