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  1. Sclerotium rolfsii is a potent producer of many secondary metabolites, one of which like scleroglucan is an exopolysaccharide (EPS) appreciated as a multipurpose compound applicable in many industrial fields.

    Authors: Tianlong Bai, Teng Wang, Yan Li, Na L. Gao, Lixin Zhang, Wei-Hua Chen and Xiushan Yin
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2021 8:1
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  2. Asexuality was considered to be a common feature of a large part of fungi, including those of the genus Aspergillus. However, recent advances and the available genomic and genetic engineering technologies allowed...

    Authors: Valeria Ellena, Michael Sauer and Matthias G. Steiger
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:17
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  3. For centuries, filamentous fungi have been used in the making of food and beverages, and for decades for the production of enzymes and pharmaceuticals. In the last decades, the intellectual property (IP) lands...

    Authors: Silvia Hüttner, Anton Johansson, Paulo Gonçalves Teixeira, Puck Achterberg and Ramkumar B. Nair
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:16
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  4. Two reference strains have been sequenced from the mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea, monokaryon Okayama 7/#130 (OK130) and the self-compatible homokaryon AmutBmut. An adenine-auxotrophy in OK130 (ade8-1) and a para-a...

    Authors: Bastian Dörnte, Can Peng, Zemin Fang, Aysha Kamran, Cut Yulvizar and Ursula Kües
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:15
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  7. Synthetic gene expression systems offer a possibility for controllable and targeted induction of the expression of genes of interest, which is a fundamental technique necessary for basic research and industria...

    Authors: Christian Derntl, Robert Mach and Astrid Mach-Aigner
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:12
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  9. Filamentous fungi are widely used for production of enzymes and chemicals, and are industrially cultivated both in liquid and solid cultures. Submerged culture is often used as liquid culture for filamentous f...

    Authors: Ken Miyazawa, Akira Yoshimi and Keietsu Abe
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:10
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  11. ‘Rice koji’ is a solid culture of Aspergillus oryzae on steamed rice grains. Multiple parallel fermentation, wherein saccharification of rice by A. oryzae and alcohol fermentation by the budding yeast occur simul...

    Authors: Mizuki Yasui, Ken Oda, Shunsuke Masuo, Shuji Hosoda, Takuya Katayama, Jun-ichi Maruyama, Naoki Takaya and Norio Takeshita
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:8
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  12. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) as biopharmaceuticals take a pivotal role in the current therapeutic applications. Generally mammalian cell lines, such as those derived from Chinese hamster ovaries (CHO), are use...

    Authors: Hung Hiep Huynh, Naoki Morita, Toshihiro Sakamoto, Takuya Katayama, Takuya Miyakawa, Masaru Tanokura, Yasunori Chiba, Reiko Shinkura and Jun-ichi Maruyama
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:7
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  14. Fungi have the ability to transform organic materials into a rich and diverse set of useful products and provide distinct opportunities for tackling the urgent challenges before all humans. Fungal biotechnolog...

    Authors: Vera Meyer, Evelina Y. Basenko, J. Philipp Benz, Gerhard H. Braus, Mark X. Caddick, Michael Csukai, Ronald P. de Vries, Drew Endy, Jens C. Frisvad, Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Thomas Haarmann, Yitzhak Hadar, Kim Hansen, Robert I. Johnson, Nancy P. Keller, Nada Kraševec…
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. The genome-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized gene manipulation by providing an efficient method to generate targeted mutations. This technique deploys the Cas9 endonuclease and a guide RNA (sgRNA) wh...

    Authors: Haseena Khan, Megan C. McDonald, Simon J. Williams and Peter S. Solomon
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:4
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  16. The filamentous fungus Aspergillus oryzae is widely used for secondary metabolite production by heterologous expression; thus, a wide variety of promoter tools is necessary to broaden the application of this spec...

    Authors: Maiko Umemura, Kaoru Kuriiwa, Linh Viet Dao, Tetsuya Okuda and Goro Terai
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:3
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  17. Lignocellulosic biomass could support a greatly-expanded bioeconomy. Current strategies for using biomass typically rely on single-cell organisms and extensive ancillary equipment to produce precursors for dow...

    Authors: Rolando Perez, Marina Luccioni, Rohinton Kamakaka, Samuel Clamons, Nathaniel Gaut, Finn Stirling, Katarzyna P. Adamala, Pamela A. Silver and Drew Endy
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:2
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  18. Flowers offer a wide variety of substrates suitable for fungal growth. However, the mycological study of flowers has only recently begun to be systematically addressed from an ecological point of view. Most re...

    Authors: Joon Klaps, Bart Lievens and Sergio Álvarez-Pérez
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2020 7:1
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  19. Crude glycerol coming from biodiesel production is an attractive carbon source for biological production of chemicals. The major impurity in preparations of crude glycerol is methanol, which is toxic for most ...

    Authors: Eija Vartiainen, Peter Blomberg, Marja Ilmén, Martina Andberg, Mervi Toivari and Merja Penttilä
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:27
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  20. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors provided revised images for Figs. 4, 6 and 7 which were not processed by the typesetter during proof-correction stage. The corrected figures are g...

    Authors: Timothy C. Cairns, Claudia Feurstein, Xiaomei Zheng, Li Hui Zhang, Ping Zheng, Jibin Sun and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:26
    Content type: Publisher Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:18

  21. Besides their ability to produce several interesting bioactive secondary metabolites, members of the Fusarium solani species complex comprise important pathogens of plants and humans. One of the major obstacles i...

    Authors: Mikkel Rank Nielsen, Anna Karolina Rilana Holzwarth, Emmett Brew, Natalia Chrapkova, Samba Evelyne Kabemba Kaniki, Kenneth Kastaniegaard, Trine Sørensen, Klaus Ringsborg Westphal, Reinhard Wimmer, Teis Esben Sondergaard and Jens Laurids Sørensen
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:25
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  22. Filamentous fungi are important producers of enzymes and bioactive secondary metabolites and are exploited for industrial purposes. Expression and characterization of biosynthetic pathways requires stable expr...

    Authors: Jakob K. H. Rendsvig, Christopher T. Workman and Jakob B. Hoof
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:24
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  24. Soil microorganisms play an important role in enhancing soil fertility and plant health. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria form a key component of the soil microbial populat...

    Authors: Anuroopa Nanjundappa, Davis Joseph Bagyaraj, Anil Kumar Saxena, Murugan Kumar and Hillol Chakdar
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  26. Lignocellulosic biomass has long been recognized as a potential sustainable source for industrial applications. The costs associated with conversion of plant biomass to fermentable sugar represent a significan...

    Authors: Jingen Li, Shuying Gu, Zhen Zhao, Bingchen Chen, Qian Liu, Tao Sun, Wenliang Sun and Chaoguang Tian
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:21
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  27. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that Table 5 was missing in the published version, although it was originally submitted and reviewed along with the rest of the manuscrip...

    Authors: Min Jin Kwon, Tabea Schütze, Sebastian Spohner, Stefan Haefner and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:20
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:15

  28. Filamentous fungal cell factories are used to produce numerous proteins, enzymes, and organic acids. Protein secretion and filamentous growth are tightly coupled at the hyphal tip. Additionally, both these pro...

    Authors: Timothy C. Cairns, Claudia Feurstein, Xiaomei Zheng, Li Hui Zhang, Ping Zheng, Jibin Sun and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:18
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:26

  29. The circular economy closes loops in industrial manufacturing processes and minimizes waste. A bio-based economy aims to replace fossil-based resources and processes by sustainable alternatives which exploits ...

    Authors: Kustrim Cerimi, Kerem Can Akkaya, Carsten Pohl, Bertram Schmidt and Peter Neubauer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:17
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  30. Trichoderma reesei is widely known for its enormous protein secretion capacity and as an industrially relevant producer of cellulases and hemicellulases. Over the last decades, rational strain engineering was app...

    Authors: Elisabeth Fitz, Christian Gamauf, Bernhard Seiboth and Franziska Wanka
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:16
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  31. Within the last years, numerous reports described successful application of the CRISPR nucleases Cas9 and Cpf1 for genome editing in filamentous fungi. However, still a lot of efforts are invested to develop a...

    Authors: Min Jin Kwon, Tabea Schütze, Sebastian Spohner, Stefan Haefner and Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:15
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:20

  32. Ceratobasidium theobromae, a member of the Ceratobasidiaceae family, is the causal agent of vascular-streak dieback (VSD) of cacao, a major threat to the chocolate industry in the South-East Asia. The fastidious ...

    Authors: Shahin S. Ali, Asman Asman, Jonathan Shao, Amanda P. Firmansyah, Agung W. Susilo, Ade Rosmana, Peter McMahon, Muhammad Junaid, David Guest, Tee Yei Kheng, Lyndel W. Meinhardt and Bryan A. Bailey
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:14
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  33. CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome editing has expedited the way of constructing multiple gene alterations in filamentous fungi, whereas traditional methods are time-consuming and can be of mutagenic nature. These de...

    Authors: Tim M. van Leeuwe, Mark Arentshorst, Tim Ernst, Ebru Alazi, Peter J. Punt and Arthur F. J. Ram
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:13
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  34. Trichoderma reesei represents a model system for investigation of plant cell wall degradation and its connection to light response. The cyclic adenosine monophosphate pathway (cAMP pathway) plays an important rol...

    Authors: Wolfgang Hinterdobler, André Schuster, Doris Tisch, Ezgi Özkan, Hoda Bazafkan, Johann Schinnerl, Lothar Brecker, Stefan Böhmdorfer and Monika Schmoll
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:12
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  35. Filamentously growing microorganisms offer unique advantages for biotechnological processes, such as extraordinary secretion capacities, going along with multiple obstacles due to their complex morphology. How...

    Authors: Roman P. Jansen, Carina Beuck, Matthias Moch, Bianca Klein, Kira Küsters, Holger Morschett, Wolfgang Wiechert and Marco Oldiges
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:11
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  36. An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology. Several articles were published in volume 6 with a duplicate citation number.

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    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:10
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    The original article was published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:9

    The original article was published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:8

  37. Viriditoxin is one of the ‘classical’ secondary metabolites produced by fungi and that has antibacterial and other activities; however, the mechanism of its biosynthesis has remained unknown.

    Authors: Andrew S. Urquhart, Jinyu Hu, Yit-Heng Chooi and Alexander Idnurm
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:9
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:10

  38. Microfluidic systems are well-suited for studying mixed biological communities for improving industrial processes of fermentation, biofuel production, and pharmaceutical production. The results of which have t...

    Authors: Larry J. Millet, Jayde Aufrecht, Jessy Labbé, Jessie Uehling, Rytas Vilgalys, Myka L. Estes, Cora Miquel Guennoc, Aurélie Deveau, Stefan Olsson, Gregory Bonito, Mitchel J. Doktycz and Scott T. Retterer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:8
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    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:10

  39. Soybean production around the globe faces significant annual yield losses due to pests and diseases. One of the most significant causes of soybean yield loss annually in the U.S. is sudden death syndrome (SDS)...

    Authors: Mitchell G. Roth and Martin I. Chilvers
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:7
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  40. CRISPR technology has revolutionized fungal genetic engineering by increasing the speed and complexity of the experiments that can be performed. Moreover, the efficiency of the system often allows genetic engi...

    Authors: Katherina Garcia Vanegas, Zofia Dorota Jarczynska, Tomas Strucko and Uffe Hasbro Mortensen
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:6
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  41. Science and art have long been studied interchangeably, with notable polymaths emerging in the Renaissance such as Leonardo da Vinci (artist, inventor, engineer and anatomist) and Alexander von Humboldt (explo...

    Authors: Vera Meyer
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:5
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  42. 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a major residual component of a lignocellulosic bio-refinery process, can be transformed into fundamental building blocks for green chemistry via oxidation. While chemical method...

    Authors: Marianne Daou, Bassem Yassine, Saowanee Wikee, Eric Record, Françoise Duprat, Emmanuel Bertrand and Craig B. Faulds
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:4
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  43. The CRISPR/Cas9 is currently the predominant technology to enhance the genome editing efficiency in eukaryotes. Established tools for many fungal species exist while most of them are based on in vivo expressed...

    Authors: Joosu Kuivanen, Veera Korja, Sami Holmström and Peter Richard
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:3
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  44. The bacterial CRISPR/Cas genome editing system has provided a major breakthrough in molecular biology. One use of this technology is within a nuclease-based gene drive. This type of system can install a geneti...

    Authors: Megan E. Goeckel, Erianna M. Basgall, Isabel C. Lewis, Samantha C. Goetting, Yao Yan, Megan Halloran and Gregory C. Finnigan
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:2
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  45. Itaconic acid (IA), a C5-dicarboxylic acid, has previously been identified as one of the top twelve biochemicals that can be produced by biotechnological means. IA is naturally produced by Aspergillus terreus, ho...

    Authors: Abeer H. Hossain, Alexander Ter Beek and Peter J. Punt
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2019 6:1
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  47. Filamentous fungi are important producers of secondary metabolites, low molecular weight molecules that often have bioactive properties. Calbistrin A is a secondary metabolite with an interesting structure tha...

    Authors: Sietske Grijseels, Carsten Pohl, Jens Christian Nielsen, Zahida Wasil, Yvonne Nygård, Jens Nielsen, Jens C. Frisvad, Kristian Fog Nielsen, Mhairi Workman, Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen, Arnold J. M. Driessen and Rasmus John Normand Frandsen
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2018 5:18
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  48. Translocated chromosomal duplications occur spontaneously in many organisms; segmental duplications of large chromosomal regions are expected to result in phenotypic changes because of gene dosage effects. The...

    Authors: Tadashi Takahashi, Masahiro Ogawa, Atsushi Sato and Yasuji Koyama
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2018 5:17
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  49. Aspergillus niger is an important fungus used in industrial applications for enzyme and acid production. To enable rational metabolic engineering of the species, available information can be collected and integra...

    Authors: Julian Brandl, Maria Victoria Aguilar-Pontes, Paul Schäpe, Anders Noerregaard, Mikko Arvas, Arthur F. J. Ram, Vera Meyer, Adrian Tsang, Ronald P. de Vries and Mikael R. Andersen
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2018 5:16
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  50. The filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei (T. reesei) is a natural producer of cellulolytic and xylanolytic enzymes and is therefore industrially used. Many industries require high amounts of enzymes, in particul...

    Authors: Alice Rassinger, Agnieszka Gacek-Matthews, Joseph Strauss, Robert L. Mach and Astrid R. Mach-Aigner
    Citation: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology 2018 5:15
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