Several components of the glucose induction pathway, namely the Snf3p glucose sensor and the Rgt1p and Mth1p transcription factors, were shown to be involved in inhibition of sporulation by glucose. The glucose sensors had only a minor role in regulating transcript levels of the two key regulators of meiotic initiation, the Ime1p transcription factor and the Ime2p kinase, but a major role in re...

Colletotrichum gloeosporiodes is one of the main fungi that attacks tropical and subtropical fruits. In this study, sodium silicate chitosan were applied individually in conjunction at different concentrations to evaluate their efficacy vitro on mycelial growth conidia sporulation. Besides, morphological changes treated determined through scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Sodium alone did not...

Pyricularia oryzae (Tel. Magnaporthegrisea) is currently used as a fungal model for plantmicrobeinteraction studies as well as an indicative model for anticancer drug discovery. Thepresent study introduces the optimal condition in which P. oryzae grows and sporulates beston common culture media. We have considered three fungal culture media, i.e. PDA, PCA andWA, based on which P. oryzae sporula...

Species of the mycoparasitic fungal genus Hypocrea/Trichoderma are prominent producers of peptaibols, a class of small linear peptides of fungal origin. Some of these peptaibols have been shown to act synergistically with cell-wall-degrading enzymes in the inhibition of the growth of other fungi in vitro and in vivo. Here we present the structure of the Hypocrea atroviridis peptaibol synthetase...

Pigeonpea is one of the important pulse crop Madhya Pradesh, a State India. The plant gets infected by pathogen Fusarium udum causing wilt disease, which major constraints in production and productivity pigeonpea. present study aimed to carry out vitro condition assess possible use biocontrol consortia field conditions. Six Trichoderma viz., T1- T. viride + harzianum (JC-I), T2- virens (JC-2), ...

Overexpression of several different Aspergillus niduluns developmental regulatory genes has been shown to cause inappropriate developmental activation and growth inhibition. We previously exploited this observation that induced development caused growth inhibition in designing a screen to identify other genes that could activate development when overexpressed. We identified 16 mutants in which ...

The oomycete vegetable pathogen Phytophthora capsici causes significant losses of important vegetable crops worldwide. Calcium and other plant nutrients have been used in disease management of oomycete pathogens. Calcium homeostasis and signaling is essential for numerous biological processes, and Ca(2+) channel blockers prevent excessive Ca(2+) influx into the fungal cell. However, it is not k...

Methionine sulfoxide has been shown to be a specific antagonist of glutamic acid in the conversion of glutamic acid to glutamine by Waelsch, Owades, Miller, and Borek (J. Biol. Chem., 166, 273, 1946) in growth inhibition studies with Lactobacillus arabinosus. Elliot and Gale (Nature, 161, 129, 1948) using cell-free extracts of Staphylococcus aureus have demonstrated that methionine sulfoxide in...