Fungal stress biology: a preface to the Fungal Stress Responses special edition

There is currently an urgent need to increase global food security, reverse the trends of increasing cancer rates, protect environmental health, and mitigate climate change. Toward these ends, it is imperative to improve soil health and crop productivity, reduce food spoilage, reduce pesticide usage...

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Published in:Current Genetics
Main Authors: Rangel, Drauzio E. N., Alder-Rangel, Alene, Dadachova, Ekaterina, Finlay, Roger D., Kupiec, Martin, Dijksterhuis, Jan, Braga, Gilberto U. L., Corrochano, Luis M., Hallsworth, John E.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Acid
alkali
chaotrope
ethanol
heat
hypoxic
osmotic
and salt stress
Aspergillus wentii
Astrobiology
Beauveria bassiana
Biofuels
Cochliobolus heterostrophus
Compatible solutes
Cryomyces antarcticus
Entomopathogenic fungi
Erythritol and mannitol
Fusarium graminearum
Hortaea werneckii
Metarhizium robertsii
Neurospora crassa
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Trehalose
Trichoderma atroviride
UV-B radiation tolerance
Antarc*
antarcticus
Online Access:https://pure.knaw.nl/portal/en/publications/e44d6f31-c67c-471d-b43e-5827a1f85b2e
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00294-015-0500-3
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11755/e44d6f31-c67c-471d-b43e-5827a1f85b2e
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Summary:There is currently an urgent need to increase global food security, reverse the trends of increasing cancer rates, protect environmental health, and mitigate climate change. Toward these ends, it is imperative to improve soil health and crop productivity, reduce food spoilage, reduce pesticide usage by increasing the use of biological control, optimize bioremediation of polluted sites, and generate energy from sustainable sources such as biofuels. This review focuses on fungi that can help provide solutions to such problems. We discuss key aspects of fungal stress biology in the context of the papers published in this Special Issue of Current Genetics. This area of biology has relevance to pure and applied research on fungal (and indeed other) systems, including biological control of insect pests, roles of saprotrophic fungi in agriculture and forestry, mycotoxin contamination of the food-supply chain, optimization of microbial fermentations including those used for bioethanol production, plant pathology, the limits of life on Earth, and astrobiology.

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