Designing a synthetic microbial community devoted to biological control: The case study of Fusarium wilt of banana

MI Prigigallo, C Gómez-Lama Cabanás… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) tropical race 4 (TR4) is threatening banana
production because of its increasing spread. Biological control approaches have been …

[PDF][PDF] Nuclear genome organization in fungi: from gene folding to Rabl chromosomes

DE Torres, AT Reckard, AD Klocko… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Comparative genomics has recently provided unprecedented insights into the biology and
evolution of the fungal lineage. In the postgenomics era, a major research interest focuses …

The jet-like chromatin structure defines active secondary metabolism in fungi

W Shao, J Wang, Y Zhang, C Zhang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Eukaryotic genomes are spatially organized within the nucleus in a nonrandom manner.
However, fungal genome arrangement and its function in development and adaptation …

[PDF][PDF] Transposable Elements Contribute to Genome Dynamics and Gene Expression Variation in the Fungal Plant Pathogen Verticillium dahliae

DE Torres, BPHJ Thomma… - Genome Biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are a major source of genetic and regulatory variation in their
host genome and are consequently thought to play important roles in evolution. Many fungal …

The soil-borne white root rot pathogen Rosellinia necatrix expresses antimicrobial proteins during host colonization

EA Chavarro-Carrero, NC Snelders, DE Torres… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Rosellinia necatrix is a prevalent soil-borne plant-pathogenic fungus that is the causal agent
of white root rot disease in a broad range of host plants. The limited availability of genomic …

A unique chromatin profile defines adaptive genomic regions in a fungal plant pathogen

DE Cook, HM Kramer, DE Torres, MF Seidl… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Genomes store information at scales beyond the linear nucleotide sequence, which impacts
genome function at the level of an individual, while influences on populations and long-term …

A chromosome-scale genome assembly of the grape powdery mildew pathogen Erysiphe necator reveals its genomic architecture and previously unknown features …

AZ Zaccaron, T Neill, J Corcoran, WF Mahaffee… - Mbio, 2023 - journals.asm.org
Erysiphe necator is an obligate fungal pathogen that causes grape powdery mildew,
globally the most important disease on grapevines. Previous attempts to obtain a quality …

Epigenetic regulation of nuclear processes in fungal plant pathogens

HM Kramer, DE Cook, MF Seidl… - PLoS Pathogens, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Through the association of protein complexes to DNA, the eukaryotic nuclear genome is
broadly organized into open euchromatin that is accessible for enzymes acting on DNA and …

Implications of the three-dimensional chromatin organization for genome evolution in a fungal plant pathogen

DE Torres, HM Kramer, V Tracanna, GL Fiorin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The spatial organization of eukaryotic genomes is linked to their biological functions,
although it is not clear how this impacts the overall evolution of a genome. Here, we uncover …

Comparative genomics of the closely related fungal genera Cryptococcus and Kwoniella reveals karyotype dynamics and suggests evolutionary mechanisms of …

MA Coelho, M David-Palma, T Shea, K Bowers… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
In exploring the evolutionary trajectories of both pathogenesis and karyotype dynamics in
fungi, we conducted a large-scale comparative genomic analysis spanning the …