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  • Polyhalogenation of isoflavonoids by the termite-associated Actinomadura sp. RB99 
    Lee, Seoung Rak; Schalk, Felix; Schwitalla, Jan W.; Benndorf, Rene; Vollmers, John; Kaster, Anne-Kristin; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Park, Minji; Ahn, Mi-Jeong; Jung, Won Hee; Beemelmanns, Christine; Kim, Ki Hyun (American Chemical Society, 2020-09)
  • Comparative genomic and metabolic analysis of Streptomyces sp. RB110 morphotypes illuminates genomic rearrangements and formation of a new 46-membered antimicrobial macrolide 
    Um, Soohyun; Guo, Huijuan; Thiengmag, Sirinthra; Benndorf, Rene; Murphy, Robert; Rischer, Maja; Braga, Daniel; Poulsen, Michael; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Lackner, Gerald; Beemelmanns, Christine (American Chemical Society, 2021-07)
    Morphotype switches frequently occur in Actinobacteria and are often associated with disparate natural product production. Here, we report on differences in the secondary metabolomes of two morphotypes of a Streptomyces ...
  • DIA-DB : a database and web server for the prediction of diabetes drugs 
    Perez-Sanchez, Horacio; Den-Haan, Helena; Pena-Garcia, Jorge; Lozano-Sanchez, Jesus; Moreno, María Encarnacion Martínez; Sanchez-Perez, Antonia; Munoz, Andres; Ruiz-Espinosa, Pedro; Pereira, Andreia S.P.; Katsikoudi, Antigoni; Hernandez, Jose Antonio Gabaldon; Stojanovic, Ivana; Carretero, Antonio Segura; Tzakos, Andreas G. (American Chemical Society, 2020-07)
    The DIA-DB is a web server for the prediction of diabetes drugs that uses two different and complementary approaches: (a) comparison by shape similarity against a curated database of approved antidiabetic drugs and ...
  • Transfer of Xanthomonas campestris pv. arecae and X. campestris pv. musacearum to X. vasicola (Vauterin) as X. vasicola pv. arecae comb. nov. and X. vasicola pv. musacearum comb. nov. and description of X. vasicola pv. vasculorum pv. nov. 
    Studholme, David J.; Wicker, Emmanuel; Abrare, Sadik Muzemil; Aspin, Andrew; Bogdanove, Adam; Broders, Kirk; Dubrow, Zoe; Grant, Murray; Jones, Jeffrey B.; Karamura, Georgina; Lang, Jillian; Leach, Jan; Mahuku, George; Nakato, Gloria Valentine; Coutinho, Teresa A.; Smith, Julian; Bull, Carolee T. (American Phytopathological Society, 2020-06)
    We present an amended description of the bacterial species Xanthomonas vasicola to include the causative agent of banana Xanthomonas wilt, as well as strains that cause disease on Areca palm, Tripsacum grass, sugarcane, ...
  • Reconsideration of species boundaries and proposed DNA barcodes for Calonectria 
    Liu, QianLi; Li, JieQiong; Wingfield, Michael J.; Duong, Tuan A.; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Crous, Pedro W.; Chen, S.F. (Fungal Biodiversity Centre (CBS), 2020-09)
    Calonectria represents a genus of phytopathogenic ascomycetous fungi with a worldwide distribution. In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of taxonomic studies on these fungi. Currently, there are 169 ...
  • Fungal systematics and evolution : FUSE 5 
    Song, Jie; Liang, Jun-Feng; Mehrabi-Koushki, Mehdi; Krisai-Greilhuber, Irmgard; Ali, Barkat; Bhatt, Vinod Kumar; Cerna-Mendoza, Agustín; Chen, Bin; Chen, Zai-Xiong; Chu, Hong-Long; Corazon-Guivin, Mike Anderson; Alves da Silva, Gladstone; De Kesel, Andre; Dima, Balint; Dovana, Francesco; Farokhinejad, Reza; Ferisin, Guliano; Guerrero-Abad, Juan Carlos; Guo, Ting; Han, Li-Hong; Ilyas, Sobia; Justo, Alfredo; Khalid, Abdul Nasir; Khodadadi-Pourarpanahi, Sadigheh; Li, Tai-Hui; Liu, Chao; Lorenzini, Marilinda; Lu, Jun-Kun; Mumtaz, Abdul Samad; Oehl, Fritz; Pan, Xue-Yu; Papp, Viktor; Qian, Wu; Razaq, Abdul; Semwal, Kamal C.; Tang, Li-Zhou; Tian, Xue-Lian; Vallejos-Tapullima, Adela; Van der Merwe, Nicolaas Albertus (Albie); Wang, Sheng-Kun; Wang, Chao-Qun; Yang, Rui-Heng; Yu, Fei; Zapparoli, Giacomo; Zhang, Ming; Antonín, Vladimir; Aptroot, Andre; Aslan, Ali; Banerjee, Arghya; Chatterjee, Subrata; Dirks, Alden C.; Ebrahimi, Leila; Fotouhifar, Khalil-Berdi; Ghosta, Youbert; Kalinina, Lyudmila B.; Karahan, Dilara; Liu, Jingyu; Maiti, Mrinal Kumar; Mookherjee, Abhirup; Nath, Partha Sarathi; Panja, Birendranath; Saha, Jayanta; Sevcíkova, Hana; Voglmayr, Hermann; Yazıcı, Kenan; Haelewaters, Danny (Verlag Ferdinand Berger, 2020)
    Thirteen new species are formally described: Cortinarius brunneocarpus from Pakistan, C. lilacinoarmillatus from India, Curvularia khuzestanica on Atriplex lentiformis from Iran, Gloeocantharellus neoechinosporus from ...
  • Wolfberry genomes and the evolution of Lycium (Solanaceae) 
    Cao, You-Long; Li, Yan-long; Fan, Yun-Fang; Li, Zhen; Yoshida, Kouki; Wang, Jie-Yu; Ma, Xiao-Kai; Wang, Ning; Mitsuda, Nobutaka; Kotake, Toshihisa; Ishimizu, Takeshi; Tsai, Kun-Chan; Niu, Shan-Ce; Zhang, Diyang; Sun, Wei-Hong; Luo, Qing; Zhao, Jian-Hua; Yin, Yue; Zhang, Bo; Wang, Jun-Yi; Qin, Ken; An, Wei; He, Jun; Dai, Guo-Li; Wang, Ya-Jun; Shi, Zhi-Gang; Jiao, En-Ning; Wu, Peng-Ju; Liu, Xuedie; Liu, Bin; Liao, Xing-Yu; Jiang, Yu-Ting; Yu, Xia; Hao, Yang; Xu, Xin-Yu; Zou, Shuang-Quan; Li, Ming-He; Hsiao, Yu-Yun; Lin, Yu-Fu; Liang, Chieh-Kai; Chen, You-Yi; Wu, Wan-Lin; Lu, Hsiang-Chai; Lan, Si-Ren; Wang, Zhi-Wen; Zhao, Xiang; Zhong, Wen-Ying; Yeh, Chuan-Ming; Tsai, Wen-Chieh; Van de Peer, Yves; Liu, Zhong-Jian (Nature Research, 2021-06)
    Wolfberry Lycium, an economically important genus of the Solanaceae family, contains approximately 80 species and shows a fragmented distribution pattern among the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Although several ...
  • Model-based detection of whole-genome duplications in a phylogeny 
    Zwaenepoel, Arthur; Van de Peer, Yves (Oxford University Press, 2020-09)
    Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs) leave signatures in comparative genomic data sets that can be harnessed to detect these events of presumed evolutionary importance. Current statistical approaches for the detection ...
  • Invasion history and management of Eucalyptus snout beetles in the Gonipterus scutellatus species complex 
    Schroder, Michelle L.; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J.; Hurley, Brett Phillip (Springer, 2020-01)
    Gonipterus scutellatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), once thought to be a single species, is now known to reside in a complex of at least eight cryptic species. Two of these species (G. platensis and G. pulverulentus) and ...
  • Revisiting the phenomenon of cellulase action : not all endo-and exo-cellulase interactions are synergistic 
    Thoresen, Mariska; Malgas, Samkelo; Mafa, Mpho Stephen; Pletschke, Brett Ivan (MDPI, 2021-01)
    The conventional endo–exo synergism model has extensively been supported in literature, which is based on the perception that endoglucanases (EGs) expose or create accessible sites on the cellulose chain to facilitate ...
  • In vitro and in vivo antioxidant potentials of the methanolic crude extract from Inula glomerata Oliv. & Hiern (Asteraceae) and Salacia kraussii (Harv.) Harv (Celastraceae) 
    Ojo, Michael C.; Osunsanmi, Foluso Oluwagbemiga; Cele, Nkosinathi D.; Zharare, Godfrey E.; Mosa, Rebamang Anthony; Opoku, Andy R. (MS-Editions, 2021-07)
    Reactive oxygen species are implicated in multiple pathological conditions including erectile dysfunction. This study evaluated the in vitro and in vivo antioxidant potential of the methanolic extracts of Inula glomerata ...
  • Fungal Planet description sheets : 1112–1181 
    Crous, Pedro W.; Cowan, Don A.; Maggs-Kolling, G.; Yilmaz, Neriman; Larsson, E.; Angelini, C.; Brandrud, T.E.; Dearnaley, J.D.W.; Dima, B.; Dovana, F.; Fechner, N.; García, D.; Gene, J.; Halling, R.E.; Houbraken, J.; Leonard, P.; Luangsa-ard, J.J.; Noisripoom, W.; Rea-Ireland, A.E.; Sevcíkova, H.; Smyth, C.W.; Vizzini, A.; Adam, J.D.; Adams, G.C.; Alexandrova, A.V.; Alizadeh, A.; Duarte, E. Alvarez; Andjic, V.; Antonín, V.; Arenas, F.; Assabgui, R.; Ballarà, J.; Banwell, A.; BerrafTebbal, A.; Bhatt, V.K.; Bonito, G.; Botha, W.; Burgess, T.I.; Cabon, M.; Calvert, J.; Carvalhais, L.C.; Courtecuisse, R.; Cullington, P.; Davoodian, N.; Decock, C.A.; Dimitrov, R.; Piazza, S. Di; Drenth, A.; Dumez, S.; Eichmeier, A.; Etayo, J.; Fernández, I.; Fiard, J.-P.; Fournier, J.; Fuentes-Aponte, S.; Ghanbary, M.A.T.; Ghorbani, G.; Giraldo, A.; Glushakova, A.M.; Gouliamova, D.E.; Guarro, J.; Halleen, F.; Hampe, F.; Hernandez-Restrepo, M.; Iturrieta-González, I.; Jeppson, M.; Kachalkin, A.V.; Karimi, O.; Khalid, A.N.; Khonsanit, A.; Kim, J.I.; Kim, K.; Kiran, M.; Krisai-Greilhuber, I.; Kucera, V.; Kusan, I.; Langenhoven, S.D.; Lebel, T.; Lebeuf, R.; Liimatainen, K.; Linde, C.; Lindner, D.L.; Lombard, L.; Mahamedi, A.E.; Matocec, N.; Maxwell, A.; May, T.W.; McTaggart, A.R.; Meijer, M.; Mesic, A.; Mileto, A.J.; Miller, A.N.; Molia, A.; Mongkolsamrit, S.; Munoz Cortes, C.; Munoz-Mohedano, J.; Morte, A.; Morozova, Olga V.; Mostert, L.; Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa, R.; Nagy, L.G.; Navarro-Ródenas, A.; Örstadius, L.; Overton, B.E.; Papp, V.; Para, R.; Peintner, U.; Pham, Thi Ha Giang; Pordel, A.; Pošta, A.; Rodríguez, A.; Romberg, M.; Sandoval-Denis, M.; Seifert, K.A.; Semwal, K.C.; Sewall, B.J.; Shivas, R.G.; Slovák, M.; Smith, K.; Spetik, M.; Spies, C.F.J.; Syme, K.; Tasanathai, K.; Thorn, R.G.; Tkalčec, Z.; Tomashevskaya, M.A.; Torres-Garcia, D.; Ullah, Z.; Visagie, Cobus M.; Voitk, A.; Winton, L.M.; Groenewald, Johannes Zacharias (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, 2020-12)
    Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Australia, Austroboletus asper on soil, Cylindromonium alloxyli on leaves of Alloxylon pinnatum, Davidhawksworthia quintiniae ...
  • Transcriptomic analysis of the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, across all stages of the lifecycle 
    Bartley, Kathryn; Chen, Wan; Mills, Richard I. Lloyd; Nunn, Francesca; Price, Daniel R.G.; Rombauts, Stephane; Van de Peer, Yves; Roy, Lise; Nisbet, Alasdair J.; Burgess, Stewart T.G. (BMC, 2021-04)
    BACKGROUND: The blood feeding poultry red mite (PRM), Dermanyssus gallinae, causes substantial economic damage to the egg laying industry worldwide, and is a serious welfare concern for laying hens and poultry house workers. ...
  • Tree health in South Africa : retrospect and prospect 
    Wingfield, Michael J.; Hurley, Brett Phillip; Wingfield, Brenda D.; Slippers, Bernard (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-11-26)
    South Africa is a country with very limited natural forest cover. Consequently, the timber and fibre needs of the country cannot be provided for from indigenous forest. It is largely for this reason that South Africa ...
  • The Southern African Society for Plant Pathology : 1962–2020 
    Wingfield, Michael J.; Coutinho, Teresa A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-11-26)
    Scientific societies play an enormously valuable role in promoting important disciplines. This role is perhaps even greater in countries that are relatively isolated from the rest of the world, such as those in the southern ...
  • The plant disease pyramid : the relevance of the original vision of plant pathology in 2020 
    Slippers, Bernard (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-11-26)
    In 1926, Professor Paul A. van der Bijl made an address to the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in his capacity as President of Section C of the Association, entitled ‘Landmarks in the development ...
  • Increased abundance of secreted hydrolytic enzymes and secondary metabolite gene clusters define the genomes of latent plant pathogens in the Botryosphaeriaceae 
    Nagel, Jan Hendrik; Wingfield, Michael J.; Slippers, Bernard (BMC, 2021-08)
    BACKGROUND: The Botryosphaeriaceae are important plant pathogens, but also have the ability to establish asymptomatic infections that persist for extended periods in a latent state. In this study, we used comparative genome ...
  • Genome-wide expression and network analyses of mutants in key brassinosteroid signaling genes 
    Seyed Rahmani, Razgar; Shi, Tao; Zhang, Dongzhi; Gou, Xiaoping; Yi, Jin; Miclotte, Giles; Marchal, Kathleen; Li, Jia (BMC, 2021-06)
    BACKGROUND: Brassinosteroid (BR) signaling regulates plant growth and development in concert with other signaling pathways. Although many genes have been identified that play a role in BR signaling, the biological and ...
  • Comparative genomics reveals prophylactic and catabolic capabilities of Actinobacteria within the fungus-farming termite symbiosis 
    Murphy, Robert; Benndorf, Rene; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Vollmers, John; Kaster, Anne-Kristin; Beemelmanns, Christine; Poulsen, Michael (American Society for Microbiology, 2021-03)
    Actinobacteria, one of the largest bacterial phyla, are ubiquitous in many of Earth’s ecosystems and often act as defensive symbionts with animal hosts. Members of the phylum have repeatedly been isolated from basidiomyc ...
  • Genome reduction and relaxed selection is associated with the transition to symbiosis in the basidiomycete genus Podaxis 
    Conlon, Benjamin H.; Gostincar, Cene; Fricke, Janis; Kreuzenbeck, Nina B.; Daniel, Jan-Martin; Schlosser, Malte S.L.; Peereboom, Nils; Aanen, Duur K.; De Beer, Z. Wilhelm; Beemelmanns, Christine; Gunde-Cimerman, Nina; Poulsen, Michael (Cell Press, 2021-06)
    Insights into the genomic consequences of symbiosis for basidiomycete fungi associated with social insects remain sparse. Capitalizing on viability of spores from centuries-old herbarium specimens of free-living, facultative, ...