In 1917, a food chemist named James Currie made a promising discovery: any strain of the
filamentous mould Aspergillus niger would produce high concentrations of citric acid when …

Aspergillus fumigatus is one of the most ubiquitous of the airborne saprophytic fungi.
Humans and animals constantly inhale numerous conidia of this fungus. The conidia are …

Differential cDNA cloning was used to identify genes expressed during infectious growth of
the fungal pathogen Magnaporthe grisea in its host, the rice plant. We characterized one of …

Agrobacterium tumefaciens transfers part of its Ti plasmid, the T-DNA, to plant cells during
tumorigenesis. It is routinely used for the genetic modification of a wide range of plant …

Fusarium head blight epidemics of wheat and barley cause heavy economic losses to
farmers due to yield decreases and production of mycotoxin that renders the grain useless …

Objectives Recent increases in triazole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus have been
attributed primarily to target site (cyp51A) mutations. A recent survey of resistant isolates in …

The glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene (gpdA) has been identified from a
genomic DNA library prepared from the plant pathogenic fungus Glomerella cingulata …

Mycoinsecticides are being used for the control of many insect pests as an environmentally
acceptable alternative to chemical insecticides. A key aim of much recent work has been to …

The ability to acquire iron in vivo is essential for most microbial pathogens. Here we show
that Aspergillus fumigatus does not have specific mechanisms for the utilization of host iron …

Human fungal infections may fail to respond to contemporary antifungal therapies in vivo
despite in vitro fungal isolate drug susceptibility. Such a discrepancy between in vitro …