One of the exciting movements in microbial sciences has been a refocusing and
revitalization of efforts to mine the fungal secondary metabolome. The magnitude of …

Fungi contain a remarkable diversity of both primary and secondary metabolic pathways
involved in ecologically specialized or accessory functions. Genes in these pathways are …

Motivation Genes involved in coordinated biological pathways, including metabolism, drug
resistance and virulence, are often collocalized as gene clusters. Identifying homologous …

Plants produce diverse specialized metabolites (SMs), but the genes responsible for their
production and regulation remain largely unknown, hindering efforts to tap plant …

Fungi are ideal model organisms for dissecting the genomic bases of adaptive divergence in
eukaryotes. They have simple morphologies and small genomes, occupy contrasting, well …

Fungi are well known for their ability to produce a multitude of natural products. On the one
hand their potential to provide beneficial antibiotics and immunosuppressants has been …

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of fungi. Species assigned to the Aspergillus genus
produce a wide range of mycotoxins which can contaminate several agricultural products …

Plants are a remarkable source of high-value specialized metabolites having significant
physiological and ecological functions. Genes responsible for synthesizing specialized …

Anthraquinones are a large family of secondary metabolites (SMs) that are extensively
studied for their diverse biological activities. These activities are determined by functional …

In this review, I recount my personal history. My drive to study host-pathogen interactions
was to find alternatives for agrochemicals, which was triggered after reading the book “Silent …