Endophytes are non-disease causing microbes (bacteria and fungi) surviving in living
tissues of plants. Their intimate association and possible coevolution with their plant …

Covering: 1996–2022 Investigations over the last 2 decades have begun to reveal how
fungal iterative highly-reducing polyketide synthases are programmed. Both in vitro and in …

Rapid (co‐) evolution at multiple timescales is a hallmark of plant–microbe interactions. The
mechanistic basis for the rapid evolution largely rests on the features of the genomes of the …

Effectors are small, secreted molecules that mediate the establishment of interactions in
nature. While some concepts of effector biology have stood the test of time, this area of study …

Primary biosynthetic enzymes involved in the synthesis of lichen polyphenolic compounds
depsides and depsidones are non-reducing polyketide synthases (NR-PKSs), and …

Plants counter disease with an array of responses to styme pathogen ingress. In contrast to
this cacophony, plant pathogens orchestrate a finely tuned repertoire of virulence …

Red mold rice (RMR) is a traditional Chinese medicine prepared using Monascus
fermentation. Monascus ruber (pilosus) and Monascus purpureus have a long history of use …

Abstract Background The Botryosphaeriaceae are important plant pathogens, but also have
the ability to establish asymptomatic infections that persist for extended periods in a latent …

Ecological diversity in fungi is largely defined by metabolic traits, including the ability to
produce secondary or “specialized” metabolites (SMs) that mediate interactions with other …

Highlights•Many of life's adaptive accessory functions are encoded in metabolic gene
clusters.•Cluster evolution is intertwined with the processes generating accessory …