Do all fungi have ancestors with endophytic lifestyles?

CS Bhunjun, C Phukhamsakda, KD Hyde… - Fungal Diversity, 2024‏ - Springer
Fungi are an essential component of any ecosystem and have diverse ecological roles,
ranging from endophytes to epiphytes and pathogens to saprobes. The current estimate of …

Evolution and genome architecture in fungal plant pathogens

M Möller, EH Stukenbrock - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2017‏ - nature.com
The fungal kingdom comprises some of the most devastating plant pathogens. Sequencing
the genomes of fungal pathogens has shown a remarkable variability in genome size and …

Prediction of effector protein structures from fungal phytopathogens enables evolutionary analyses

K Seong, KV Krasileva - Nature Microbiology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Elucidating the similarity and diversity of pathogen effectors is critical to understand their
evolution across fungal phytopathogens. However, rapid divergence that diminishes …

[HTML][HTML] What are the 100 most cited fungal genera?

CS Bhunjun, YJ Chen, C Phukhamsakda… - Studies in …, 2024‏ - ingentaconnect.com
The global diversity of fungi has been estimated between 2 to 11 million species, of which
only about 155 000 have been named. Most fungi are invisible to the unaided eye, but they …

Improved prediction of fungal effector proteins from secretomes with EffectorP 2.0

J Sperschneider, PN Dodds… - Molecular plant …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant‐pathogenic fungi secrete effector proteins to facilitate infection. We describe extensive
improvements to EffectorP, the first machine learning classifier for fungal effector prediction …

Plant pathogenic fungi

G Doehlemann, B Ökmen, W Zhu… - The fungal …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Fungi have developed a plethora of strategies to colonize plants, and these interactions
result in a broad spectrum of outcomes ranging from beneficial interactions to death of the …

A thousand-genome panel retraces the global spread and adaptation of a major fungal crop pathogen

A Feurtey, C Lorrain, MC McDonald, A Milgate… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Human activity impacts the evolutionary trajectories of many species worldwide. Global
trade of agricultural goods contributes to the dispersal of pathogens resha** their genetic …

Quantitative pathogenicity and host adaptation in a fungal plant pathogen revealed by whole-genome sequencing

R Amezrou, A Ducasse, J Compain, N Lapalu… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge of genetic determinism and evolutionary dynamics mediating host-
pathogen interactions is essential to manage fungal plant diseases. Studies on the genetic …

Fungal effectors and plant susceptibility

L Lo Presti, D Lanver, G Schweizer… - Annual review of …, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Plants can be colonized by fungi that have adopted highly diverse lifestyles, ranging from
symbiotic to necrotrophic. Colonization is governed in all systems by hundreds of secreted …

MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes

IV Grigoriev, R Nikitin, S Haridas, A Kuo… - Nucleic acids …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
MycoCosm is a fungal genomics portal (http://jgi. doe. gov/fungi), developed by the US
Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to support integration, analysis and …