OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Fungal Genetics and Biology is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

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
Role of Atg1 in morphologic changes of the pathogenic fungus Trichosporon asahii	24
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	23
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	22
Distribution and dynamics of hyphal organelles	19
Editorial Board	18
Transcription factor lineages in plant-pathogenic fungi, connecting diversity with fungal virulence	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
Role of Pmk1, Mpk1, or Hog1 in the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway of Aspergillus cristatus	17
Bioprospecting of the probiotic potential of yeasts isolated from a wine environment	17
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	17
Detection and quantification of the histone code in the fungal genus Aspergillus	16
Identification of the polyketide synthase gene responsible for the synthesis of tanzawaic acids in Penicillium steckii IBWF104-06	14
Comparative proteomic analysis of two divergent strains provides insights into thermotolerance mechanisms of Ganoderma lingzhi	14
FungANI, a BLAST-based program for analyzing average nucleotide identity (ANI) between two fungal genomes, enables easy fungal species delimitation	13
Alternaria alstroemeriae F1 inhibits aspergillus flavus growth and weakens aflatoxins biosynthesis	13
Aspergillus fumigatus isolated from diverse wildfowl exhibit distinct antifungal susceptibility profiles driven by genetic and non-genetic determinants	13
A microscopy-based image analysis pipeline for the quantification of germination of filamentous fungi	12
Predicting functions of putative fungal sesquiterpene synthase genes based on multiomics data analysis	12
The conidial coin toss: A polarized conidial adhesive in Colletotrichum graminicola	12
Transcription factors Fst8, Ftr3 and Gat1 are regulators of the immune system of the mushroom Schizophyllum commune	12
Full-length Chd1 of Coprinopsis cinerea is expressed after the dark period required for fruiting body maturation and impacts meiotic progression	11
Discerning the global phylogeographic distribution of Phyllosticta citricarpa by means of whole genome sequencing	11
Editorial Board	10
WMAF: One novel method for whole mitogenome alignment in fungi and its application in phylogenetic analysis	10

Two typical acyl-CoA-binding proteins (ACBPs) are required for the asexual development and virulence of Phytophthora sojae	10
Comparative transcriptomics of growth metabolism and virulence reveal distinct morphogenic profiles of yeast-like cells and hyphae of the fungus Metarhizium rileyi	10
Functional genome annotation and transcriptome analysis of Pseudozyma hubeiensis BOT-O, an oleaginous yeast that utilizes glucose and xylose at equal rates	10
Plasticity in initial infection traits in response to high temperature for worldwide representative Puccinia striiformis isolates	10
A transcription factor and a phosphatase regulate temperature-dependent morphogenesis in the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici	10
Candida albicans strains adapted to the mouse gut are resistant to bile salts via a Flo8-dependent mechanism	10
Editorial Board	10
Decoding azole resistance mechanisms and pathogenicity in Aspergillus section Fumigati through genomic analysis	10
Functional analysis of basidiomycete specific chitin synthase genes in the agaricomycete fungus Pleurotus ostreatus	9
Association between genomic single nucleotide polymorphisms and susceptibility of Talaromyces marneffei	9
The Cys2-His2 zinc finger transcription factor NsdC regulates hyphal branching, conidiation and mycelial pellet morphology in Aspergillus oryzae	9
A gene cluster with positive and negative elements controls bistability and hysteresis of the crippled versus normal growth in the fungus Podospora anserina	9
Benchmarking fungal species classification using Oxford Nanopore Technologies long-read ITS metabarcodes	9
AwSclB regulates a network for Aspergillus westerdijkiae asexual sporulation and secondary metabolism independent of the fungal light control	9
Fungal microtubule organizing centers are evolutionarily unstable structures	9
First report on the regulation and function of carbon metabolism during large sclerotia formation in medicinal fungus Wolfiporia cocos	9
The effect of exogenous addition of metformin hydrochloride on lipid synthesis in Mucor circinelloides WJ11	9
The interactome of the UapA transporter reveals putative new players in anterograde membrane cargo trafficking	8
Exploring endophytic fungi from Cynodon dactylon: GC–MS profiling and biological activity	8
Analysis of the emerging physical network in young mycelia	8
Proteomic dissection of the role of GliZ in gliotoxin biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus	8
Critical role of Wat1/Pop3 in regulating the TORC1 signalling pathway in fission yeast S. pombe	8
Distinct roles for different autophagy-associated genes in the virulence of the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici	8
Decrypting biocontrol functions and application modes by genomes data of three Trichoderma Strains/Species	8
Identification of putative fungal reference genes with stable expression from large RNA-seq datasets	8
Mechanistic investigations of hirsutene biosynthesis catalyzed by a chimeric sesquiterpene synthase from Steccherinum ochraceum	7
Multiple scenarios for sexual crosses in the fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici on wheat residues: Potential consequences for virulence gene transmission	7
Anaerobic fungi contain abundant, diverse, and transcriptionally active Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposons	7
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	7
Methyl jasmonate differentially and tissue-specifically regulated the expression of arginine catabolism–related genes and proteins in Agaricus bisporus mushrooms during storage	7
Update on the structure and function of Candida albicans drug efflux protein, Cdr1	7
Characterization of a GH12 family glycosyl hydrolase from Neurospora crassa	7
The dynamics of transposable element content in the genome of the human pathogen Histoplasma	7
Targeted deletion of cc63tf and cc12grf reveals opposing regulation of beauvericin biosynthesis in Cordyceps cicadae	7
CfErp3 regulates growth, conidiation, inducing ipomeamarone and the pathogenicity of Ceratocystis fimbriata	7
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	7
Comparative genomics provides insights into the cold adaptation of endophytic fungi associated with Deschampsia antarctica	6
Classification and functional prediction of fungal glycosyltransferases using machine learning and deep learning methods	6
Optimizing fungal extracellular vesicle proteomic profiling through combined analysis of in-solution and in-gel digestion	6
Genomic, transcriptomic, and ecological diversity of Penicillium species in cheese rind microbiomes	6
Conserved copper regulation of the antimicrobial isocyanide brassicicolin A in Alternaria brassicicola	6
Functional characterization of endo-β-1,3-glucanase in Trichoderma reesei	6
The impact of glutamine synthetase PbgsA on the growth, conidiation and mycophenolic acid production of Penicillium brevicompactum	6
Editorial Board	6
Editorial Board	6
Physiological function of hydrophobin Hydph16 in cell wall formation in agaricomycete Pleurotus ostreatus	5
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing reveals that the Pgs gene of Fusarium circinatum is involved in pathogenicity, growth and sporulation	5
Botrytis cinerea detoxifies the sesquiterpenoid phytoalexin rishitin through multiple metabolizing pathways	5
Analysis of the genetic diversity of the soybean rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi reveals two major evolutionary lineages	5
The establishment of multiple knockout mutants of Colletotrichum orbiculare by CRISPR-Cas9 and Cre-loxP systems	5

Saccharomyces cerevisiae recovery from various mild abiotic stresses: Viability, fitness, and high resolution three-dimensional morphology imaging	5
Highly dynamic supernumerary mini-chromosomes in a Magnaporthe oryzae strain contributes to cellular variance of genomic content	5
The C2H2-type zinc-finger regulator AoKap5 is required for the growth and kojic acid synthesis in Aspergillus oryzae	5
Hyphae: Tubular creators of the fungal kingdom	5
Unidirectional mating-type switching is underpinned by a conserved MAT1 locus architecture	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
The transcriptional activator ClrB is crucial for the degradation of soybean hulls and guar gum in Aspergillus niger	5
Nanosized extracellular vesicles released by Neurospora crassa hyphae	5
Zymocin-like killer toxin gene clusters in the nuclear genomes of filamentous fungi	4
Coordination of two regulators SscA and VosA in Aspergillus nidulans conidia	4
Two ferrous iron transporter-like proteins independently participate in asexual development under iron limitation and virulence in Beauveria bassiana	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
Tools to make Stachybotrys chartarum genetically amendable: Key to unlocking cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters	4
Genome-wide survey and evolutionary history of the pectin methylesterase (PME) gene family in the Dothideomycetes class of fungi	4
Where to grow and where to go	4
Global transcriptome changes during growth of a novel Penicillium coffeae isolate on the wheat stripe rust fungus, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici	4
The role of NLRP3/caspase−/GSDMD signal axis mediated cell pyroptosis in the pathogenicity of T. asahii	4
Corrigendum to “Biological characterization of the melanin biosynthesis gene Bcscd1 in the plant pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea” [Fungal Genet. Biol. 160 (2022) 103693]	4
Editorial Board	4
Identification of a novel genetic locus conferring virulence in the wheat tan spot pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis	4
Compound mutagenesis boosts β-carotene biosynthesis in Neurospora crassa: ATP synthase mutation and enzymes activities enhancement	4
Editorial Board	4
Septum-associated microtubule organizing centers within conidia support infectious development by the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae	4
Methyltransferase CclA-dependent control of secondary metabolite gene clusters and stress response in Aspergillus nidulans	4
Editorial Board	4
Intracellular sequestration of cadmium and zinc in ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita muscaria (Agaricales, Amanitaceae) and characterization of its metallothionein gene	4
Nearly telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the L. edodes diploid genome	4
Colony differentiation of saprobic and pathogenic fungi in relation to carbon utilization	4
Putative transcription factor Nrg1 is involved in the hyphal branching and the cell wall structure formation in the filamentous fungus Pleurotus ostreatus	4
Optimized convolutional neural networks for real-time detection and severity assessment of early blight in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)	4
Endocytosis in filamentous Fungi: Coordinating polarized hyphal growth and membrane recycling	4
Characterization of the Trr/Trx system in the fungal pathogen Candida glabrata	3
A microfluidic spore chamber for long-term imaging of single-spore hyphal development.	3
Diversity of the manganese lipoxygenase gene family – A mini-review	3
New simple sequence repeat markers reveal undetected diversity in Spanish and Californian Diplodia sapinea populations	3
Redox perturbations in yeast cells lacking glutathione reductase	3
Influence of H3K9 methylation on gene mutation rates in yeast: Advancing epigenetic research with controlled experimental design	3
Multi-locus sequence typing and phylogenetics of Cryptococcus neoformans AD hybrids	3
Expression of endogenous UDP-glucosyltransferase in endophyte Phomopsis liquidambaris reduces deoxynivalenol contamination in wheat	3
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	3
Microevolution of Candida glabrata (Nakaseomyces glabrata) during an infection	3
The genus Acrophialophora: History, phylogeny, morphology, beneficial effects and pathogenicity	3
Visualising long distance sugar transport in fungi using infrared fluorescence scanning imaging	3
Identification of two genes essential for basidiospore formation during the postmeiotic stages in Pleurotus ostreatus	3
bHLH transcription factor EcdR controls conidia production, pigmentation and virulence in Aspergillus fumigatus	3
Love in the time of climate change: A review of sexual reproduction in the order Onygenales	3
Off-season sex in Zymoseptoria tritici: little room for late encounters	3