Fungal viruses unveiled: a comprehensive review of mycoviruses

B Hough, E Steenkamp, B Wingfield, D Read - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mycoviruses (viruses of fungi) are ubiquitous throughout the fungal kingdom and are
currently classified into 23 viral families and the genus botybirnavirus by the International …

[HTML][HTML] Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

U Neri, YI Wolf, S Roux, AP Camargo, B Lee… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
High-throughput RNA sequencing offers broad opportunities to explore the Earth RNA
virome. Mining 5,150 diverse metatranscriptomes uncovered> 2.5 million RNA virus contigs …

Viruses Infecting the Plant Pathogenic Fungus Rhizoctonia solani

AH Abdoulaye, MF Foda, I Kotta-Loizou - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
The cosmopolitan fungus Rhizoctonia solani has a wide host range and is the causal agent
of numerous crop diseases, leading to significant economic losses. To date, no cultivars …

Hiding in plain sight: New virus genomes discovered via a systematic analysis of fungal public transcriptomes

KB Gilbert, EE Holcomb, RL Allscheid, JC Carrington - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The distribution and diversity of RNA viruses in fungi is incompletely understood due to the
often cryptic nature of mycoviral infections and the focused study of primarily pathogenic …

Novel mycoviruses discovered in the mycovirome of a necrotrophic fungus

A Ruiz-Padilla, J Rodríguez-Romero, I Gómez-Cid… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Botrytis cinerea is one of the most important plant-pathogenic fungus. Products based on
microorganisms can be used in biocontrol strategies alternative to chemical control, and …

A novel partitivirus orchestrates conidiation, stress response, pathogenicity, and secondary metabolism of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium majus

P Wang, G Yang, N Shi, C Zhao, F Hu… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Mycoviruses are widely present in all major groups of fungi but those in entomopathogenic
Metarhizium spp. remain understudied. In this investigation, a novel double-stranded (ds) …

RNA-viromics reveals diverse communities of soil RNA viruses with the potential to affect grassland ecosystems across multiple trophic levels

LS Hillary, EM Adriaenssens, DL Jones… - ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The distribution and diversity of RNA viruses in soil ecosystems are largely unknown,
despite their significant impact on public health, ecosystem functions, and food security …

A collection of Trichoderma isolates from natural environments in Sardinia reveals a complex virome that includes negative-sense fungal viruses with unprecedented …

S Pagnoni, S Oufensou, V Balmas, D Bulgari… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Trichoderma genus includes soil-inhabiting fungi that provide important ecosystem services
in their interaction with plants and other fungi, as well as biocontrol of fungal plant diseases …

Decoding the RNA virome of the tree parasite Armillaria provides new insights into the viral community of soil‐borne fungi

W Shamsi, R Heinzelmann, S Ulrich… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The globally distributed basidiomycete genus Armillaria includes wood decomposers that
can act as opportunistic parasites, causing deadly root rot on woody plants. To test whether …

Partitiviruses infecting Drosophila melanogaster and Aedes aegypti exhibit efficient biparental vertical transmission

ST Cross, BL Maertens, TJ Dunham… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Partitiviruses are segmented, multipartite double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses that until
recently were only known to infect fungi, plants, and protozoans. Metagenomic surveys have …