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  1. Members of the fungal kingdom are heterotrophic eukaryotes encased in a chitin containing cell wall. This polymer is vital for cell wall stiffness and, ultimately, cell shape. Most fungal genomes contain numer...

    Authors: Lars Barthel, Timothy Cairns, Sven Duda, Henri Müller, Birgit Dobbert, Sascha Jung, Heiko Briesen and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2024 11:3
  2. Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is a destructive floral disease of different cereal crops. The Ascomycete fungus Fusarium graminearum (Fg) is one of the main causal agents of FHB in wheat and barley. The role(s) in vi...

    Authors: Martin Darino, Martin Urban, Navneet Kaur, Ana Machado Wood, Mike Grimwade-Mann, Dan Smith, Andrew Beacham and Kim Hammond-Kosack
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2024 11:2
  3. Filamentous fungi are prolific producers of bioactive molecules and enzymes with important applications in industry. Yet, the vast majority of fungal species remain undiscovered or uncharacterized. Here we foc...

    Authors: R. Iacovelli, T. He, J. L. Allen, T. Hackl and K. Haslinger
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2024 11:1
  4. To achieve climate neutrality, fundamentally new concepts of circularity need to be implemented by the building sector as it contributes to 40% of anthropogenic CO2 emission. Fungal biotechnology can make a signi...

    Authors: Bertram Schmidt, Carsten Freidank-Pohl, Justus Zillessen, Lisa Stelzer, Tamara Núñez Guitar, Carsten Lühr, Henri Müller, Fangxing Zhang, Jörg U. Hammel, Heiko Briesen, Sascha Jung, Hans-Jörg Gusovius and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:22
  5. Asexually developed fungal spores (conidia) are key for the massive proliferation and dispersal of filamentous fungi. Germination of conidia and subsequent formation of a mycelium network give rise to many soc...

    Authors: Sjoerd J. Seekles, Tom van den Brule, Maarten Punt, Jan Dijksterhuis, Mark Arentshorst, Maryam Ijadpanahsaravi, Winfried Roseboom, Gwendolin Meuken, Véronique Ongenae, Jordy Zwerus, Robin A. Ohm, Gertjan Kramer, Han A. B. Wösten, Johannes H. de Winde and Arthur F. J. Ram
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:21
  6. Trichoderma atroviride is a competitive soil-borne mycoparasitic fungus with extensive applications as a biocontrol agent in plant protection. Despite its importance and application potential, reference genes for...

    Authors: Daniel Flatschacher, Alexander Eschlböck and Susanne Zeilinger
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:20
  7. Fungi are prolific producers of bioactive small molecules of pharmaceutical or agricultural interest. The secondary metabolism of higher fungi (Dikarya) has been well-investigated which led to > 39,000 describ...

    Authors: Johannes Rassbach, Nathalie Hilsberg, Veit G. Haensch, Sebastian Dörner, Julia Gressler, Robin Sonnabend, Caroline Semm, Kerstin Voigt, Christian Hertweck and Markus Gressler
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:19
  8. The filamentous fungus Rasamsonia emersonii has immense potential to produce biorefinery relevant thermostable cellulase and hemicellulase enzymes using lignocellulosic biomass. Previously in our lab, a hyper-cel...

    Authors: Varinder Singh, Yashika Raheja, Neha Basotra, Gaurav Sharma, Adrian Tsang and Bhupinder Singh Chadha
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:18
  9. Non-reducing polyketide synthases (NR-PKSs) account for a major share of natural product diversity produced by both Asco- and Basidiomycota. The present evolutionary diversification into eleven clades further ...

    Authors: Nikolai A. Löhr, Malik Rakhmanov, Jacob M. Wurlitzer, Gerald Lackner, Markus Gressler and Dirk Hoffmeister
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:17
  10. Endophytic Aspergillus species produce countless valuable bioactive secondary metabolites. In the current study, Aspergillus flavus an endophyte from the soft coral Sarcophyton ehrenbergi was chemically explored ...

    Authors: Abdel Nasser B. Singab, Yasmin A. Elkhawas, Eman Al-Sayed, Ahmed M. Elissawy, Iten M. Fawzy and Nada M. Mostafa
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:16
  11. Fungi have been utilized for centuries in medical, agricultural, and industrial applications. Development of systems biology techniques has enabled the design and metabolic engineering of these fungi to produc...

    Authors: Guoliang Yuan, Jeffrey J. Czajka, Ziyu Dai, Dehong Hu, Kyle R. Pomraning, Beth A. Hofstad, Joonhoon Kim, Ana L. Robles, Shuang Deng and Jon K. Magnuson
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:15
  12. The terphenylquinones represent an ecologically remarkable class of basidiomycete natural products as they serve as central precursors of pigments and compounds that impact on microbial consortia by modulating...

    Authors: Paula Sophie Seibold, Stefanie Lawrinowitz, Ihar Raztsou, Markus Gressler, Hans-Dieter Arndt, Pierre Stallforth and Dirk Hoffmeister
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:14
  13. Fungi are important sources for bioactive compounds that find their applications in many important sectors like in the pharma-, food- or agricultural industries. In an environmental monitoring project for fung...

    Authors: Andreas Schüller, Lena Studt-Reinhold, Harald Berger, Lucia Silvestrini, Roman Labuda, Ulrich Güldener, Markus Gorfer, Markus Bacher, Maria Doppler, Erika Gasparotto, Arianna Gattesco, Michael Sulyok and Joseph Strauss
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:13
  14. The use of microbial biomasses, such as fungal biomass, to catalyze the transesterification of triglycerides (TG) for biodiesel production provides a sustainable, economical alternative while still having the ...

    Authors: Nadeem I. Elhussiny, Ahmed M. A. Mohamed, Heba A. El-Refai, Sayeda S. Mohamed, Yousseria M. Shetaia, Hala A. Amin and Gerd Klöck
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:12
  15. Due to their versatile way of life as saprophytes, endophytes, and entomopathogens, fungi of the genera Metarhizium and Beauveria are exposed to varying illumination conditions in their natural habitats, which ma...

    Authors: Pamela Vrabl, Maria Zottele, Lucia Colleselli, Christoph Walter Schinagl, Laura Mayerhofer, Bianka Siewert and Hermann Strasser
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:11
  16. Drought stress is currently the primary abiotic stress factor for crop loss worldwide. Although drought stress reduces the crop yield significantly, species and genotypes differ in their stress response; some ...

    Authors: Revanna Ashwin, Davis Joseph Bagyaraj and Basavaiah Mohan Raju
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:10
  17. Mycelium-bound composites are potential alternatives to conventional materials for a variety of applications, including thermal and acoustic building panels and product packaging. If the reactions of live myce...

    Authors: Neil Phillips, Antoni Gandia and Andrew Adamatzky
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:8
  18. The yeast Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris) is routinely used for heterologous protein expression and is suggested as a model organism for yeast. Despite its importance and application potential, no referenc...

    Authors: Mihail Besleaga, Gabriel A. Vignolle, Julian Kopp, Oliver Spadiut, Robert L. Mach, Astrid R. Mach-Aigner and Christian Zimmermann
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:7
  19. Aspergillus terreus microorganism represents a promising prospective source for drug discovery since it is rich in diverse kinds of bioactive secondary metabolites. It contributed to many biotechnological applica...

    Authors: Khadiga Amr, Nehal Ibrahim, Ahmed M. Elissawy and Abdel Nasser B. Singab
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:6
  20. A safe and ecofriendly biocontrol of pathogenic Fusarium equiseti was developed based on chitosan nanoparticles (CNPs) combined with Trichoderma longibrachiatum and Penicillium polonicum. Two strains of F. equise...

    Authors: EL-Sayed M. El-Morsy, Yomna S. Elmalahy and Mohamed M. A. Mousa
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:5
  21. Secondary metabolites (SMs) from mushroom-forming fungi (Basidiomycota) and early diverging fungi (EDF) such as Mucoromycota are scarcely investigated. In many cases, production of SMs is induced by unknown stres...

    Authors: Leo Kirchgaessner, Jacob M. Wurlitzer, Paula S. Seibold, Malik Rakhmanov and Markus Gressler
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:4
  22. Oleaginous fungi have versatile metabolism and able to transform a wide range of substrates into lipids, accounting up to 20–70% of their total cell mass. Therefore, oleaginous fungi are considered as an alter...

    Authors: V. Shapaval, A. Deniset-Besseau, D. Dubava, S. Dzurendova, J. Heitmann Solheim and A. Kohler
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:2
  23. Due to the infection with the invasive ascomycete Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, which has been replacing the closely related and non-pathogenic native Hymenoscyphus albidus, the European ashes, Fraxinus excelsior (als...

    Authors: Tobias Lutz, Birgit Hadeler, Mareike Jaeckel, Barbara Schulz and Cornelia Heinze
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2023 10:1
  24. The production of petroleum-based plastics increased dramatically following industrialization. Because of multifaceted properties such as durability, thermostability, water resistance, and many others, these p...

    Authors: Mayur G. Naitam, Govind Singh Tomar and Rajeev Kaushik
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:17
  25. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are increasingly recognized as an important mechanism for cell–cell interactions. Their role in fungi is still poorly understood and they have been isolated from only a handful of ...

    Authors: Anja Černoša, Cene Gostinčar, Teja Lavrin, Rok Kostanjšek, Metka Lenassi and Nina Gunde-Cimerman
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:16
  26. Several metabolites released by fungal species are an essential source of biologically active natural substances. Gas chromatography high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-HRTOF-MS) is one of the...

    Authors: Oluwasola Abayomi Adelusi, Sefater Gbashi, Janet Adeyinka Adebiyi, Rhulani Makhuvele, Oluwafemi Ayodeji Adebo, Adeola Oluwakemi Aasa, Sarem Targuma, Glory Kah and Patrick Berka Njobeh
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:15
  27. Numerous reports have shown that incorporating a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA)-expressing transgene into plants or applying dsRNA by spraying it onto their leaves successfully protects them against invading path...

    Authors: Timo Schlemmer, Richard Lischka, Linus Wegner, Katrin Ehlers, Dagmar Biedenkopf and Aline Koch
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:14
  28. Since the initial detection, in 2007, of fungal ribosomally synthesised and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs), this group of natural products has undergone rapid expansion, with four separate clas...

    Authors: R. E. Ford, G. D. Foster and A. M. Bailey
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:12
  29. Fungal specialized metabolites play an important role in the environment and have impacted human health and survival significantly. These specialized metabolites are often the end product of a series of sequen...

    Authors: Elizabeth Skellam
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:11
  30. The mechanical drying of wood chips is an innovative method that improves the heating value of sawmill by-products in an energy-efficient continuous process. The liquid that comes out of the wood chips as pres...

    Authors: Manfred J. Reppke, Rebecca Gerstner, Elisabeth Windeisen-Holzhauser, Klaus Richter and J. Philipp Benz
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:10
  31. The Diels–Alder (DA) reaction refers to a [4 + 2] cycloaddition reaction that falls under the category of pericyclic reactions. It is a reaction that allows regio- and stereo-selective construction of two carb...

    Authors: Kenji Watanabe, Michio Sato and Hiroyuki Osada
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:9
  32. Non-ribosomal peptide synthetase-like (NRPS-like) enzymes are highly enriched in fungal genomes and can be discriminated into reducing and non-reducing enzymes. Non-reducing NRPS-like enzymes possess a C-terminal...

    Authors: Carsten Wieder, Roberta Peres da Silva, Jessica Witts, Christof Martin Jäger, Elena Geib and Matthias Brock
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:8
  33. To obtain special wood properties for various technical applications, fungi with their broad spectrum of activity can make a contribution. The foundations for today's mycological wood modifications were laid b...

    Authors: Stephanie Stange and André Wagenführ
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:7
  34. Filamentous fungi of the phylum Basidiomycota are considered as an attractive source for the biotechnological production of composite materials. The ability of many basidiomycetes to accept residual lignocellu...

    Authors: Carsten Pohl, Bertram Schmidt, Tamara Nunez Guitar, Sophie Klemm, Hans-Jörg Gusovius, Stefan Platzk, Harald Kruggel-Emden, Andre Klunker, Christina Völlmecke, Claudia Fleck and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:4
  35. Sustainable fungal materials have a high potential to replace non-sustainable materials such as those used for packaging or as an alternative for leather and textile. The properties of fungal materials depend ...

    Authors: Jeroen G. van den Brandhof and Han A. B. Wösten
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:3
  36. Maleidrides are a family of structurally related fungal natural products, many of which possess diverse, potent bioactivities. Previous identification of several maleidride biosynthetic gene clusters, and subs...

    Authors: Katherine Williams, Kate M. J. de Mattos-Shipley, Christine L. Willis and Andrew M. Bailey
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:2
  37. Biological pigmentation is one of the most intriguing traits of many fungi. It holds significance to scientists, as a sign of biochemical metabolism and organism-environment interaction, and to artists, as the...

    Authors: Sunanda Sharma and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2022 9:1
  38. Processes and products employing filamentous fungi are increasing contributors to biotechnology. These organisms are used as cell factories for the synthesis of platform chemicals, enzymes, acids, foodstuffs a...

    Authors: Pamina Füting, Lars Barthel, Timothy C. Cairns, Heiko Briesen and Stefan Schmideder
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2021 8:23
  39. Life-threatening invasive fungal infections are treated with antifungal drugs such as Amphotericin B (AmB) loaded liposomes. Our goal herein was to show that targeting liposomal AmB to fungal cells with the C-...

    Authors: Suresh Ambati, Tuyetnhu Pham, Zachary A. Lewis, Xiaorong Lin and Richard B. Meagher
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2021 8:22
  40. Recent efforts in fungal biotechnology aim to develop new concepts and technologies that convert renewable plant biomass into innovative biomaterials. Hereby, plant substrates become metabolized by filamentous...

    Authors: Huaiyou Chen, Amanmyrat Abdullayev, Maged F. Bekheet, Bertram Schmidt, Isabel Regler, Carsten Pohl, Cekdar Vakifahmetoglu, Mathias Czasny, Paul H. Kamm, Vera Meyer, Aleksander Gurlo and Ulla Simon
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2021 8:21
  41. In the context of the ongoing transition from a linear to a circular economy, ecologically friendly renewable solutions are put in place. Filamentous fungi can be grown on various organic feedstocks and functi...

    Authors: Simon Vandelook, Elise Elsacker, Aurélie Van Wylick, Lars De Laet and Eveline Peeters
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2021 8:20
  42. While mycelium is considered a promising alternative for fossil-based resins in lignocellulosic materials, the mechanical properties of mycelium composite materials remain suboptimal, among other reasons due t...

    Authors: Elise Elsacker, Simon Vandelook, Bastien Damsin, Aurélie Van Wylick, Eveline Peeters and Lars De Laet
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2021 8:18
  43. Fungal biomaterials are becoming increasingly popular in the fields of architecture and design, with a significant bloom of projects having taken place during the last 10 years. Using mycelium as a stabilizing...

    Authors: Dimitra Almpani-Lekka, Sven Pfeiffer, Christian Schmidts and Seung-il Seo
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2021 8:17

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  44. Concrete is the most used construction material worldwide due to its abundant availability and inherent ease of manufacturing and application. However, the material bears several drawbacks such as the high sus...

    Authors: Aurélie Van Wylick, Antonielle Vieira Monclaro, Elise Elsacker, Simon Vandelook, Hubert Rahier, Lars De Laet, David Cannella and Eveline Peeters
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2021 8:16

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