Molecular Genetics of Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis in Fungal that Interact with Plants and Animals
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2019) | Viewed by 12350
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Dear Colleagues,
Many fungi have the potential to produce a diverse suite of secondary metabolites, many of which can be toxic to various plants and animals. The biosynthesis of these molecules is often encoded in gene clusters in the genomes of producing organisms. In the last few decades, advances in genomics and metabolite analytical technologies has started linking many gene clusters to metabolites, but we are still only scratching the surface of the chemical diversity that fungi produce.
This Special Issue will collect recent studies on understanding how toxins (and secondary metabolites in general) are biosynthesised by fungi with a focus on fungi associated with plants and animals. Many of these interactions with plants and animals are pathogenic, but beneficial interactions, particularly between plants and fungi, are also common. The Issue hopes to cover the areas of genomics, biosynthetic pathway elucidation, regulation and regulatory networks, toxicology, and pathogenicity/virulence aspects of toxin biosynthesis by fungi.
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Keywords
- mycotoxin
- contamination
- genomics
- regulation
- virulence
- non-ribosomal peptide synthetase
- terpenoid
- polyketide
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