Amphibian skin is a mucosal surface in direct and continuous contact with a microbially
diverse and laden aquatic and/or terrestrial environment. As such, frog skin is an important …

The establishment of safe and effective methods for controlling fungal diseases is an urgent
issue in agriculture and forestry. Fungicide research has provided a wide range of products …

Fungicides are indispensable to global food security and their use is forecasted to intensify.
Fungicides can reach aquatic ecosystems and occur in surface water bodies in agricultural …

Chytridiomycosis caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is
pushing amphibians towards extinction. Whilst mitigation methods were suggested a …

Research focused on succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and its substrate, succinate,
culminated in the 1950s accompanying the rapid development of research dedicated to …

Fungicides, insecticides and herbicides are widely used in agriculture to counteract
pathogens and pests. Several of these molecules are toxic to non-target organisms such as …

Neonicotinoids are a new type of highly water-soluble insecticide used in agricultural
practices to eliminate pests. Neonicotinoids bind almost irreversibly to postsynaptic nicotinic …

Invasive fungal pathogens Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and B. salamandrivorans
(Bsal) are causing mortality events and population declines in amphibians around the world …

Thifluzamide, a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor fungicide, has been used extensively for
many diseases control and has the risk of accumulation in soil ecology. In order to study the …

Endophytes acquire flavonoid biosynthetic genes from the host medicinal plants. Despite tea
(Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze) being the major source of bioactive catechins, catechin …