Globally, forests represent highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks where soil
organic matter is formed from residuals after biomass decomposition as well as from …

Mycoviruses are widely distributed among various kinds of fungi. Over the past 10 years,
more novel mycoviruses have been discovered with the use of high-throughput sequencing …

Abstract Knowledge of mycovirus diversity, evolution, horizontal gene transfer and shared
ancestry with viruses infecting distantly related hosts, such as plants and arthropods, has …

Forests are an essential component of the natural environment, as they support biodiversity,
sequester carbon, and play a crucial role in biogeochemical cycles—in addition to …

Interspecies transmission of viruses is a well-known phenomenon in animals and plants
whether via contacts or vectors. In fungi, interspecies transmission between distantly related …

Soils support a myriad of organisms hosting highly diverse viromes. In this minireview, we
focus on viruses hosted by true fungi and oomycetes (members of Stamenopila …

Species of Armillaria are distributed globally and include some of the most important
pathogens of forest and ornamental trees. Some of them form large long-living clones that …

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 …

Non-self recognition is a common phenomenon among organisms; it often leads to innate
immunity to prevent the invasion of parasites and maintain the genetic polymorphism of …

Phytophthora castaneae, an oomycete pathogen causing root and trunk rot of different tree
species in Asia, was shown to harbor a rich diversity of novel viruses from different families …