Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward

BK Singh, M Delgado-Baquerizo, E Egidi… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Plant disease outbreaks pose significant risks to global food security and environmental
sustainability worldwide, and result in the loss of primary productivity and biodiversity that …

Evolution of the human pathogenic lifestyle in fungi

A Rokas - Nature Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Fungal pathogens cause more than a billion human infections every year, resulting in more
than 1.6 million deaths annually. Understanding the natural history and evolutionary ecology …

Advances in the study of the function and mechanism of the action of flavonoids in plants under environmental stresses

J Wu, S Lv, L Zhao, T Gao, C Yu, J Hu, F Ma - Planta, 2023 - Springer
Main conclusion This review summarizes the anti-stress effects of flavonoids in plants and
highlights its role in the regulation of polar auxin transport and free radical scavenging …

Drug-resistant fungi: an emerging challenge threatening our limited antifungal armamentarium

A Arastehfar, T Gabaldón, R Garcia-Rubio, JD Jenks… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The high clinical mortality and economic burden posed by invasive fungal infections (IFIs),
along with significant agricultural crop loss caused by various fungal species, has resulted in …

Recent advances and applications of bacterial cellulose in biomedicine

S Swingler, A Gupta, H Gibson, M Kowalczuk… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is an extracellular polymer produced by Komagateibacter xylinus,
which has been shown to possess a multitude of properties, which makes it innately useful …

Recent applications of vinyl sulfone motif in drug design and discovery

R Ahmadi, S Emami - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Vinyl sulfone with electrophilic character is not only a versatile building block for various
organic transformations but also is a key structural unit in a large number of biologically …

A small molecule produced by Lactobacillus species blocks Candida albicans filamentation by inhibiting a DYRK1-family kinase

J MacAlpine, M Daniel-Ivad, Z Liu, J Yano… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The fungus Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogen that can exploit imbalances in
microbiome composition to invade its human host, causing pathologies ranging from vaginal …

Immunity to invasive fungal diseases

A Casadevall - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Invasive fungal diseases are rare in individuals with intact immunity. This, together with the
fact that there are only a few species that account for most mycotic diseases, implies a …

[HTML][HTML] Current trends and mismatches on fungicide use and assessment of the ecological effects in freshwater ecosystems

AR Pimentão, AP Cuco, C Pascoal, F Cássio… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite increasing evidence of off-site ecological impacts of pesticides and policy efforts
worldwide, pesticide use is still far from being ecologically sustainable. Fungicides are …

Global warming could drive the emergence of new fungal pathogens

A Casadevall - Nature microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
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