Fungal response to any stress is intricate, specific, and multilayered, though it employs only
a few evolutionarily conserved regulators. This comes with the assumption that one …

The discovery of penicillin entailed a decisive breakthrough in medicine. No other medical
advance has ever had the same impact in the clinical practise. The fungus Penicillium …

The objective of this study was to develop a simple and cost-effective method to produce
biofertilizer using agro-wastes. There were five types of agro-wastes being used in this …

This work aims to successfully produce silica nanoparticles (SNPs) from Egyptian white
sand using the fungal bioleaching process as a cost-effective and eco-friendly approach …

Trichoderma longibrachiatum UN32 is known for its efficient production of dendrobine-type
total alkaloids (DTTAs). This study aimed to determine the optimal medium composition for …

Lovastatin, and its semisynthetic derivative simvastatine, has great medical and economic
importance, besides great potential for other uses. In the last years, a deeper and more …

Aspergillus terreus is a textbook example of an industrially relevant filamentous fungus. It is
used for the biotechnological production of two valuable metabolites, namely itaconic acid …

Monascus pigments (MPs) are widely used natural colorants in Asian countries. The
problems of low extracellular red pigment (ERP) and high citrinin remain to be solved in …

Background Reactive oxygen species (ROS) trigger different morphogenic processes in
filamentous fungi and have been shown to play a role in the regulation of the biosynthesis of …

Applications of beneficial secondary metabolites produced by Monascus purpureus (M.
purpureus) could be greatly limited for citrinin, a kidney toxin. The link of NaCl with cell …