TY - JOUR
T1 - Fungal stress biology
T2 - a preface to the Fungal Stress Responses special edition
AU - Rangel, Drauzio E.N.
AU - Alder-Rangel, Alene
AU - Dadachova, Ekaterina
AU - Finlay, Roger D.
AU - Kupiec, Martin
AU - Dijksterhuis, Jan
AU - Braga, Gilberto U.L.
AU - Corrochano, Luis M.
AU - Hallsworth, John E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2015/8/26
Y1 - 2015/8/26
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Acid, alkali, chaotrope, ethanol, heat, hypoxic, osmotic, and salt stress
KW - Aspergillus wentii
KW - Astrobiology
KW - Beauveria bassiana
KW - Biofuels
KW - Cochliobolus heterostrophus
KW - Compatible solutes
KW - Cryomyces antarcticus
KW - Entomopathogenic fungi
KW - Erythritol and mannitol
KW - Fusarium graminearum
KW - Hortaea werneckii
KW - Metarhizium robertsii
KW - Neurospora crassa
KW - Saccharomyces cerevisiae
KW - Trehalose
KW - Trichoderma atroviride
KW - UV-B radiation tolerance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937977897&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00294-015-0500-3
DO - 10.1007/s00294-015-0500-3
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AN - SCOPUS:84937977897
SN - 0172-8083
VL - 61
SP - 231
EP - 238
JO - Current Genetics
JF - Current Genetics
IS - 3
ER -
