The global challenge to prevent fungal spoilage and mycotoxin contamination on food and
feed requires the development of new antifungal strategies. Antimicrobial peptides and …

Defensins are one the largest group of antimicrobial peptides and are part of the innate
defence. Defensins are produced by animals, plants and fungi. In animals and plants …

Drought is one of the major impediments in wheat productivity. Traditional breeding and
marker assisted QTL introgression had limited success. Available wheat genomic and RNA …

A significant challenge in our understanding of biological systems is the high number of
genes with unknown function in many genomes. The fungal genus Aspergillus contains …

Filamentous fungi are found in virtually every marine and terrestrial habitat. Vital to this
success is their ability to secrete a diverse range of molecules, including hydrolytic enzymes …

Small, cysteine-rich and cationic proteins with antimicrobial activity are produced by diverse
organisms of all kingdoms and represent promising molecules for drug development. The …

Antifungal proteins (AFPs) from filamentous fungi offer the potential to control fungal
infections that threaten human health and food safety. AFPs exhibit broad antifungal spectra …

Filamentous fungi encode distinct antifungal proteins (AFPs) that offer great potential to
develop new antifungals. Fungi are considered immune to their own AFPs as occurs in …

Background Filamentous fungal cell factories are used to produce numerous proteins,
enzymes, and organic acids. Protein secretion and filamentous growth are tightly coupled at …

Small, cysteine-rich and cationic antimicrobial proteins (AMPs) from filamentous
ascomycetes promise treatment alternatives to licensed antifungal drugs. In this study, we …