All living organisms rely on nutrients to sustain cell metabolism and energy production,
which in turn need to be adjusted based on available resources. The evolutionarily …

Candidiasis is a common infection of the skin, oral cavity and esophagus, gastrointestinal
tract, vagina and vascular system of humans. Although most infections occur in patients who …

The rapid global re‐emergence of Fusarium head blight disease of wheat and barley in the
last decade along with contamination of grains with mycotoxins attributable to the disease …

The ability to adapt to altered availability of free water is a fundamental property of living
cells. The principles underlying osmoadaptation are well conserved. The yeast …

Filamentous fungi are unique organisms—rivaled only by actinomycetes and plants—in
producing a wide range of natural products called secondary metabolites. These …

Filamentous fungi produce a number of small bioactive molecules as part of their secondary
metabolism ranging from benign antibiotics such as penicillin to threatening mycotoxins …

Neurospora crassa is a central organism in the history of twentieth-century genetics,
biochemistry and molecular biology. Here, we report a high-quality draft sequence of the N …

▪ Abstract Comparative analysis of bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic genomes indicates
that a significant fraction of the genes in the prokaryotic genomes have been subject to …

Cyclic nucleotides represent second messenger molecules in all kingdoms of life. In
bacteria, mass sequencing of genomes detected the highly abundant protein domains …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …