OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Fungal Genetics and Biology is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysis of gene expression related to polyamine concentration and dimorphism induced in ornithine decarboxylase (odc) and spermidine synthase (spd) Ustilago maydis mutants	68
Drafting Penicillium oxalicum calcineurin-CrzA pathway by combining the analysis of phenotype, transcriptome, and endogenous protein–protein interactions	51
Glucose-induced endocytic degradation of the maltose transporter MalP is mediated through ubiquitination by the HECT-ubiquitin ligase HulA and its adaptor CreD in Aspergillus oryzae	31
Heterotrimeric G-gamma 1 (Gpg1) participates with G-beta 1 (Gpb1) in the induction of hyphal growth and virulence via the PKA pathway in Mucor lusitanicus	28
Molecular mechanism of fluconazole resistance and pathogenicity attributes of Lebanese Candida albicans hospital isolates	22
Distribution and dynamics of hyphal organelles	19
Editorial Board	18
Polymorphisms at amino acid positions 85 and 86 in succinate dehydrogenase subunit C of Colletotrichum siamense: Implications for fitness and intrinsic sensitivity to SDHI fungicides	18
Transcription factor lineages in plant-pathogenic fungi, connecting diversity with fungal virulence	18
Acetolactate synthases regulatory subunit and catalytic subunit genes VdILVs are involved in BCAA biosynthesis, microscletotial and conidial formation and virulence in Verticillium dahliae	17
Comparative proteomic analysis of two divergent strains provides insights into thermotolerance mechanisms of Ganoderma lingzhi	16
Role of Pmk1, Mpk1, or Hog1 in the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway of Aspergillus cristatus	16
FungANI, a BLAST-based program for analyzing average nucleotide identity (ANI) between two fungal genomes, enables easy fungal species delimitation	16
The serine-threonine protein kinase Snf1 orchestrates the expression of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes and is required for full virulence of the maize pathogen Colletotrichum graminicola	16
Bioprospecting of the probiotic potential of yeasts isolated from a wine environment	15
Efficient genome editing using endogenous U6 snRNA promoter-driven CRISPR/Cas9 sgRNA in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum	15
Live-cell imaging of rapid calcium dynamics using fluorescent, genetically-encoded GCaMP probes with Aspergillus fumigatus	14
Detection and quantification of the histone code in the fungal genus Aspergillus	14
Multiple roles of ABC transporters in yeast	14
Identification of the polyketide synthase gene responsible for the synthesis of tanzawaic acids in Penicillium steckii IBWF104-06	14
Predicting functions of putative fungal sesquiterpene synthase genes based on multiomics data analysis	13
Fatty acid dioxygenase-cytochrome P450 fusion enzymes of filamentous fungal pathogens	13
Identification and characterisation of sPEPs in Cryptococcus neoformans	13
The conidial coin toss: A polarized conidial adhesive in Colletotrichum graminicola	13
BcHnm1, a predicted choline transporter, modulates conidial germination and virulence in Botrytis cinerea	12

Role of the anillin-like protein in growth of Cryptococcus neoformans at human host temperature	12
Alternaria alstroemeriae F1 inhibits aspergillus flavus growth and weakens aflatoxins biosynthesis	12
Comparative transcriptomics of growth metabolism and virulence reveal distinct morphogenic profiles of yeast-like cells and hyphae of the fungus Metarhizium rileyi	12
Identification of a polyketide biosynthesis gene cluster by transcriptional regulator activation in Aspergillus terreus	12
Draft genome of the glucose tolerant β-glucosidase producing rare Aspergillus unguis reveals complete cellulolytic machinery with multiple beta-glucosidase genes	11
A microscopy-based image analysis pipeline for the quantification of germination of filamentous fungi	11
A transcription factor and a phosphatase regulate temperature-dependent morphogenesis in the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici	11
Discerning the global phylogeographic distribution of Phyllosticta citricarpa by means of whole genome sequencing	11
Editorial Board	10
Candida albicans strains adapted to the mouse gut are resistant to bile salts via a Flo8-dependent mechanism	10
Functional analysis of basidiomycete specific chitin synthase genes in the agaricomycete fungus Pleurotus ostreatus	10
Functional genome annotation and transcriptome analysis of Pseudozyma hubeiensis BOT-O, an oleaginous yeast that utilizes glucose and xylose at equal rates	10
Comparative transcriptome analysis of abnormal cap and healthy fruiting bodies of the edible mushroom Lentinula edodes	9
The H4K20 methyltransferase Kmt5 is involved in secondary metabolism and stress response in phytopathogenic Fusarium species	9
Two typical acyl-CoA-binding proteins (ACBPs) are required for the asexual development and virulence of Phytophthora sojae	9
Genomic regions associated with virulence in Setosphaeria turcica identified by linkage mapping in a biparental population	9
Genus-wide analysis of Fusarium polyketide synthases reveals broad chemical potential	9
Fungal microtubule organizing centers are evolutionarily unstable structures	9
Ras2 is important for growth and pathogenicity in Fusarium circinatum	8
AwSclB regulates a network for Aspergillus westerdijkiae asexual sporulation and secondary metabolism independent of the fungal light control	8
Editorial Board	8
The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis harmonizes nuclear dynamics in the presence of distinct abiotic factors	8
First report on the regulation and function of carbon metabolism during large sclerotia formation in medicinal fungus Wolfiporia cocos	8
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A gene cluster with positive and negative elements controls bistability and hysteresis of the crippled versus normal growth in the fungus Podospora anserina	8
Localisation of phosphoinositides in the grass endophyte Epichloë festucae and genetic and functional analysis of key components of their biosynthetic pathway in E. festucae symbiosis and Fusarium oxy	8
Proteomic dissection of the role of GliZ in gliotoxin biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus	8
Decrypting biocontrol functions and application modes by genomes data of three Trichoderma Strains/Species	7
Critical role of Wat1/Pop3 in regulating the TORC1 signalling pathway in fission yeast S. pombe	7
Autophagy-related protein UvAtg7 contributes to mycelial growth, virulence, asexual reproduction and cell stress response in rice false smut fungus Ustilaginoidea virens	7
Investigating the cell and developmental biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae	7
Exploring endophytic fungi from Cynodon dactylon: GC–MS profiling and biological activity	7
The interactome of the UapA transporter reveals putative new players in anterograde membrane cargo trafficking	7
Adaptive responses of Kluyveromyces marxianus CCT 7735 to 2-phenylethanol stress: Alterations in membrane fatty-acid composition, ergosterol content, exopolysaccharide production and reduction in reac	7
Update on the structure and function of Candida albicans drug efflux protein, Cdr1	6
Analysis of the emerging physical network in young mycelia	6
Editorial Board	6
Multiple scenarios for sexual crosses in the fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici on wheat residues: Potential consequences for virulence gene transmission	6
CfErp3 regulates growth, conidiation, inducing ipomeamarone and the pathogenicity of Ceratocystis fimbriata	6
Extracellular targeting of Neurospora crassa cell wall and secreted glycoproteins by DFG-5	6
Anaerobic fungi contain abundant, diverse, and transcriptionally active Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposons	6
DhFIG_2, a gene of nematode-trapping fungus Dactylellina haptotyla that encodes a component of the low-affinity calcium uptake system, is required for conidiation and knob-trap formation	6
Distinct roles for different autophagy-associated genes in the virulence of the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici	6
Deep amplicon sequencing reveals extensive allelic diversity in the erg11/CYP51 promoter and allows multi-population DMI fungicide resistance monitoring in the canola pathogen Leptosphaeria maculans	6
Identification of putative fungal reference genes with stable expression from large RNA-seq datasets	6
Mechanistic investigations of hirsutene biosynthesis catalyzed by a chimeric sesquiterpene synthase from Steccherinum ochraceum	6
Methyl jasmonate differentially and tissue-specifically regulated the expression of arginine catabolism–related genes and proteins in Agaricus bisporus mushrooms during storage	5
The impact of glutamine synthetase PbgsA on the growth, conidiation and mycophenolic acid production of Penicillium brevicompactum	5
Optimizing fungal extracellular vesicle proteomic profiling through combined analysis of in-solution and in-gel digestion	5
Quinidine drug resistance transporter knockout Candida cells modulate glucose transporter expression and accumulate metabolites leading to enhanced azole drug resistance	5

Editorial Board	5
Genomic, transcriptomic, and ecological diversity of Penicillium species in cheese rind microbiomes	5
Saccharomyces cerevisiae recovery from various mild abiotic stresses: Viability, fitness, and high resolution three-dimensional morphology imaging	5
Editorial Board	5
A peroxisomal sterol carrier protein 2 (Scp2) contributes to lipid trafficking in differentiation and virulence of the insect pathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana	5
Fungal cell death: The beginning of the end	5
Physiological function of hydrophobin Hydph16 in cell wall formation in agaricomycete Pleurotus ostreatus	5
Identification of a key protein set involved in Moniliophthora perniciosa necrotrophic mycelium and basidiocarp development	5
Editorial Board	5
Candida glabrata Hst1-Rfm1-Sum1 complex evolved to control virulence-related genes	4
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing reveals that the Pgs gene of Fusarium circinatum is involved in pathogenicity, growth and sporulation	4
Role of beta-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase in lipid biosynthesis of the oleaginous fungus Mortierella alpina	4
Unidirectional mating-type switching is underpinned by a conserved MAT1 locus architecture	4
The C2H2-type zinc-finger regulator AoKap5 is required for the growth and kojic acid synthesis in Aspergillus oryzae	4
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Botrytis cinerea detoxifies the sesquiterpenoid phytoalexin rishitin through multiple metabolizing pathways	4
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Conserved copper regulation of the antimicrobial isocyanide brassicicolin A in Alternaria brassicicola	4
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Optimized convolutional neural networks for real-time detection and severity assessment of early blight in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)	4
Septin AoCDC11 is involved in trap morphogenesis, conidiation, and vegetative growth in carnivorous Arthrobotrys oligospora	4
Multi-locus sequencing typing reveals geographically related intraspecies variability of Sporothrix brasiliensis	4
Genome-wide survey and evolutionary history of the pectin methylesterase (PME) gene family in the Dothideomycetes class of fungi	4
Nanosized extracellular vesicles released by Neurospora crassa hyphae	4
Enzymatic characterization of agmatinase (AGM-1) from the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa	4
Cadmium hyperaccumulating mushroom Cystoderma carcharias has two metallothionein isoforms usable for cadmium and copper storage	4
The establishment of multiple knockout mutants of Colletotrichum orbiculare by CRISPR-Cas9 and Cre-loxP systems	4
The transcriptional activator ClrB is crucial for the degradation of soybean hulls and guar gum in Aspergillus niger	4
Detailed analysis of the D-galactose catabolic pathways in Aspergillus niger reveals complexity at both metabolic and regulatory level	4
Regulation of conidiation, polarity growth, and pathogenicity by MrSte12 transcription factor in entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium rileyi	3
Where to grow and where to go	3
Tandem repeats in precursor protein stabilize transcript levels and production levels of the fungal ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide ustiloxin B	3
WITHDRAWN: Fatty acid dioxygenase-cytochrome P450 fusion enzymes of the top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology and human-pathogenic fungi	3
Tools to make Stachybotrys chartarum genetically amendable: Key to unlocking cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters	3
Editorial Board	3
Corrigendum to “Biological characterization of the melanin biosynthesis gene Bcscd1 in the plant pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea” [Fungal Genet. Biol. 160 (2022) 103693]	3
Multi-locus sequence typing and phylogenetics of Cryptococcus neoformans AD hybrids	3
Pex7 selectively imports PTS2 target proteins to peroxisomes and is required for anthracnose disease development in Colletotrichum scovillei	3
Function of the phosphatidylinositol synthase Pis1 in maintenance of endoplasmic reticulum function and pathogenicity in Candida albicans	3
Global transcriptome changes during growth of a novel Penicillium coffeae isolate on the wheat stripe rust fungus, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici	3
Editorial Board	3
Two ferrous iron transporter-like proteins independently participate in asexual development under iron limitation and virulence in Beauveria bassiana	3
A reassessment of flocculosin-mediated biocontrol activity of Pseudozyma flocculosa through CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing	3
Intracellular sequestration of cadmium and zinc in ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita muscaria (Agaricales, Amanitaceae) and characterization of its metallothionein gene	3
Identification of the pigment and its role in UV resistance in Paecilomyces variotii, a Chernobyl isolate, using genetic manipulation strategies	3
Septum-associated microtubule organizing centers within conidia support infectious development by the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae	3
Coordination of two regulators SscA and VosA in Aspergillus nidulans conidia	3
The conservation of IAP-like proteins in fungi, and their potential role in fungal programmed cell death	2
Identification of two genes essential for basidiospore formation during the postmeiotic stages in Pleurotus ostreatus	2
Visualising long distance sugar transport in fungi using infrared fluorescence scanning imaging	2
Zymocin-like killer toxin gene clusters in the nuclear genomes of filamentous fungi	2
Redox perturbations in yeast cells lacking glutathione reductase	2
New simple sequence repeat markers reveal undetected diversity in Spanish and Californian Diplodia sapinea populations	2
Diversity of the manganese lipoxygenase gene family – A mini-review	2
The genus Acrophialophora: History, phylogeny, morphology, beneficial effects and pathogenicity	2
Distinctive carbon repression effects in the carbohydrate-selective wood decay fungus Rhodonia placenta	2
Expression of endogenous UDP-glucosyltransferase in endophyte Phomopsis liquidambaris reduces deoxynivalenol contamination in wheat	2
bHLH transcription factor EcdR controls conidia production, pigmentation and virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus	2
Microevolution of Candida glabrata (Nakaseomyces glabrata) during an infection	2
CsAtf1, a bZIP transcription factor, is involved in fludioxonil sensitivity and virulence in the rubber tree anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum siamense	2
Characterization of the Trr/Trx system in the fungal pathogen Candida glabrata	2
Love in the time of climate change: A review of sexual reproduction in the order Onygenales	2
The sugar transporter AsSTL is regulated by the kinase Hog1 and is involved in glycerol transport and the response to osmotic stress in the salt-tolerant ascomycete aspergillus sydowii H-1	2
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Comparative transcriptomics reveal different mechanisms for hyphal growth across four plant-associated dimorphic fungi	2