There appear to be over a million of fungal species including those that have been
unidentified and unreported, where a variety of viruses make a world as well. Studies on a …

The chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, is an important plant pathogenic
ascomycete. The fungus hosts a wide range of viruses and now has been established as a …

In disease ecology, parasite transmission is a key parameter important at both
epidemiological and evolutionary scales. Mycoviruses can be transmitted both horizontally …

Cryphonectria parasitica, the causal agent of chestnut blight is controlled in Europe through
natural spread of Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV1), a mycovirus able to induce …

The Frontiers Research Topic “Mycoviruses and Related Viruses Infecting Fungi, Lower
Eukaryotes, Plants and Insects” was initiated in the context of Frontiers in Microbiology and …

Plant diseases caused by fungal pathogens are a major cause of yield loss in agriculture
and forestry. Mycoviruses have been discovered in many important plant pathogenic fungi …

Cryphonectria parasitica is the causal fungal agent responsible for the chestnut blight
disease. We report the generation of 14,263 expressed sequence tags representing 6318 …

Cryphonectria is a fungal genus associated with economically significant disease of trees.
Herein we characterized a novel double-stranded RNA virus from the fungal species …

The interaction of the filamentous fungal plant pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica with its
virulence-attenuating viruses provides a unique platform to explore the molecular biology …

Cryphonectria parasitica, the causative agent of chestnut blight, has proven to be a tractable
experimental system for studying fungal pathogenesis. Moreover, the development of …