Laboratory mice, rats, and rabbits may harbor a variety of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal agents. Frequently, these organisms cause no overt signs of disease. However, many of the natural pathogens of these laboratory animals may alter host physiology, rendering the host unsuitable for many experimental uses. While the number and prevalence of these pathogens have declined considerably...

Chronic infection and inflammation are defining characteristics of cystic fibrosis (CF) airway disease. Conditions within the airways of patients living with CF are conducive to colonisation by a variety of opportunistic bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens. Improved molecular identification of microorganisms has begun to emphasise the polymicrobial nature of infections in the CF airway microe...

Asya S. Buchalo1, Eviatar Nevo2*, Solomon P. Wasser1,2, Aharon Oren3 and Hans P. Molitoris4 1Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,Tereshchenkivska Str. 2, 252601 Kyiv-MSP-1, Ukraine 2Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, 31905 Haifa, Israel 3Division of Microbial and Molecular Ecology,The Alexander Silverman Institute of Life Sciences, and the ...

Trillions of microbes representing all kingdoms life are resident in, and on, humans holding essential roles for the host development physiology. The last decade over a dozen online tools servers, accessible via public domain, have been developed analysis bacterial sequences; however, fungi is still in its infancy. Here, we present web server dedicated to comprehensive human mycobiome (i) trans...

The large family of annexins is composed of more than a thousand members which are typically phospholipid-binding proteins. Annexins act in a number of signalling networks and membrane trafficking events which are fundamental to cell physiology. Annexins exert their functions mainly through their calcium-dependent membrane binding abilities; however, some calcium-independent interactions have b...

Mycorrhizal associations, by which most land plants receive mineral nutrition, are diffuse and often non-specific. A common mycorrhizal network is formed when fungal mycelia colonize and link together the roots of two or more plants, sometimes of different species. Here, we discuss recent work showing how, under realistic ecological conditions, such networks can affect the physiology and ecolog...

In the pursuit of increasing sustainability, climate change resiliency and independence synthetic pesticides in agriculture, interest consumers producers organic biodynamic farming has been steadily recent decennia. This is, particular, case for vitivinicultural industry Europe, where more are converting from to farming. However, clear scientific evidence showing that improves vine physiology, ...

This study tests the effect of glyphosate application on disease severity in glyphosate-resistant sugar beet, and examines whether the increase in disease is fungal or plant mediated. In greenhouse studies of glyphosate-resistant sugar beet, increased disease severity was observed following glyphosate application and inoculation with certain isolates of Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn and Fusarium oxys...

BACKGROUND Effector proteins of biotrophic plant pathogenic fungi and oomycetes are delivered into host cells and play important roles in both disease development and disease resistance response. How obligate fungal pathogen effectors enter host cells is poorly understood. The Ps87 gene of Puccinia striiformis encodes a protein that is conserved in diverse fungal pathogens. Ps87 homologs from a...

A Tortricidae (Lobesia botrana) has a mutualistic relationship with the fungus (Botrytis cinerea). In this study, we investigated the growth, survival, fecundity and amount of sterols and steroids in larvae of this vineyard pest reared on artificial diets containing mycelium (3%) or purified sterols (0.01%) of the phytopathogenic fungus. Two principal questions related to the physiological and ...