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Secondary Decomposers Meet Their Predators: Decomposition Stage and Substrate Quality Jointly Structure Microbial Brown Food Webs During Fungal Necromass Decay

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 18, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Mycelial residues, also known as fungal necromass, represent a substantial fraction of soil organic matter (SOM) pools in terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Although microbial decomposers are increasingly recognised as key drivers of fungal necromass carbon stock formation, the diversity and composition of their microbial predators—and the ...
François Maillard, Briana H. Beatty, Stefan Geisen, Enrique Lara, Peter G. Kennedy   +4 more
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Comparative Genome-Wide Analysis Underscores the Rapid Expansion of Cytochrome P450s for Secondary Metabolism in the Mycoparasite Pezizomycetes

Microbiology Research
Mycoparasite secondary metabolites control fungal infections or diseases in agriculture and human health. Among genes involved in synthesizing secondary metabolites, cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (CYPs/P450s) play a key role in synthesizing and ...
Puleng Rosinah Syed, Tiara Padayachee, Philasande Gamede, Bridget Valeria Zinhle Nkosi, David R. Nelson, Rajshekhar Karpoormath, Khajamohiddin Syed   +6 more
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Evaluation of biological control agents for managing cucurbit powdery mildew on greenhouse-grown melon [PDF]

, 2006
An evaluation was made of the ability of two mycoparasite-based products AQ10® (Ampelomyces quisqualis) and Mycotal® (Lecanicillium lecanii), as well as three strains of Bacillus subtilis, to manage powdery mildew disease, caused by Podosphaera fusca on ...
D. Romero, A. de Vicente, H. Zeriouh, F. M. Cazorla, D. Fernández-Ortuño, J. A. Torés, A. Pérez-García   +6 more
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Fungus wars: basidiomycete battles in wood decay [PDF]

, 2018
Understanding the mechanisms underlying wood decay basidiomycete community dynamics is crucial for fully understanding decomposition processes, and for modelling ecosystem function and resilience to environmental change.
Boddy, Lynne, Hiscox, Jennifer, O'Leary, J.   +2 more
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The Functional Role of Fungi and Bacteria in Sulfur Cycling During Kelp (Ecklonia Radiata) Degradation: Unconventional Use of PiCrust2

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 17, Issue 4, August 2025.
The microbial remineralization of Ecklonia radiata produces substantial amounts of climate‐relevant compounds, including dimethylsulfoniopropionate, carbon, sulphur and alkalinity. While bacterial metabolic pathways are well‐characterised and relatively predictable, fungal contributions remain underexplored due to the lack of metabolic predictive tools
Anita K. Perkins, Hans‐Peter Grossart, Keilor Rojas‐Jimenez, Alice Retter, Joanne M. Oakes   +4 more
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Identification of signatory secondary metabolites during mycoparasitism of Rhizoctonia solani by Stachybotrys elegans

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2015
Stachybotrys elegans is able to parasitize the fungal plant pathogen Rhizoctonia solani AG-3 following a complex and intimate interaction, which, among others, includes the production of cell wall-degrading enzymes, intracellular colonization, and ...
Rony eChamoun, Konstantinos eAliferis, Suha eJabaji   +2 more
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A Rust Disease on Gendarussa vulgaris Nees. Caused by Puccinia thwaitesii Berk. [PDF]

, 1989
Gendarussa vulgaris Nees., a common medicinal herb, was found to be severely infected by a rust disease. The disease was characterised by well defined, concave or convex, purplish-gray, discoloured lesions surrounded by a wide yellow halo on the ...
Lim, T.K, Sijam, Kamaruzaman
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Foliar Endophytic Fungal Communities Are Driven by Leaf Traits—Evidence From a Temperate Tree Diversity Experiment

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
Our study demonstrates that functional leaf traits play a crucial role in shaping fungal endophyte richness and community composition, even beyond the effects of tree species identity. Traits associated with the leaf economics spectrum exhibited both positive and negative relationships with endophyte richness depending on specific trait and taxa ...
Michael Köhler, Pablo Castro Sánchez‐Bermejo, Georg Hähn, Olga Ferlian, Nico Eisenhauer, Tesfaye Wubet, Sylvia Haider, Helge Bruelheide   +7 more
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Characterization of mechanisms underlying degradation of sclerotia of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum by Aspergillus aculeatus Asp-4 using a combined qRT-PCR and proteomic approach

BMC Genomics, 2017
Background The biological control agent Aspergillus aculeatus Asp-4 colonizes and degrades sclerotia of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum resulting in reduced germination and disease caused by this important plant pathogen.
Xiaojia Hu, Lu Qin, Daniel P. Roberts, Dilip K. Lakshman, Yangmin Gong, Jude E. Maul, Lihua Xie, Changbing Yu, Yinshui Li, Lei Hu, Xiangsheng Liao, Xing Liao   +11 more
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Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists. [PDF]

, 2015
To elucidate the genetic bases of mycorrhizal lifestyle evolution, we sequenced new fungal genomes, including 13 ectomycorrhizal (ECM), orchid (ORM) and ericoid (ERM) species, and five saprotrophs, which we analyzed along with other fungal genomes ...
Barry, K. W., Kohler, A., Kuo, A., Morin, E., Nagy, László   +4 more
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