Das Netzwerk „Mycobiomics 2.0“ stärkt die Suche nach neuen Wirkstoffen gegen resistente Erreger und fördert den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs

Xylaria nigripes and its close relatives, specialized for their associations with termite fungus combs, are capable of producing massive sclerotia within the chambers of dead termite nests. These scle...

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A decahydrofluorene-class alkaloid, pyrrospirone Z (1a), along with pyrrospirone F (2), pyrrospirone M (3), GKK1032A2 (4), daldinol (5), orthosporin (6), and 3,4-dihydro-3,4,8-trihydroxy-1(2H)-naphtha...

The Kingdom Fungi is estimated to contain several million species and accounts for a large portion of global biodiversity. However, only a small proportion of these fungal species are currently known ...

Preserve and support the U​.​S. National Fungus Collections

Despite the growing recognition of the critical ecological, economic, and cultural importance of fungi, they are rarely included in national, regional, or global conservation policies. This has hinder...

An alkyl citrate biosynthetic gene cluster (ctr) was identified from 47 members of the fungal family of Hypoxylaceae by genome mining. The Hypomontagnella monticulosa MUCL 54604 ctr cluster was deploy...

Newly discovered groups of "zombie" fungi have been found to mummify spiders and adapt their physical forms.

Drug-resistant fungal disease must be addressed in the 2026 update to the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance

Invasive fungal diseases affect over 6.5 million people annually and cause high mortality. This burden is increasing due to the global spread of drug-resistant fungi, driven by widespread antifungal u...

The Journal of Antibiotics - Euglena gracilis as a high-throughput screening platform for antibacterial activity, cytotoxicity and membrane permeability in a one-step and cost-effective assay

To tackle the emerging resistance against existing antibiotics, we screened natural-product (NP) libraries against two underexploited target enzymes from the 2C-methyl-d-erythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway, namely, Mycobacterium tuberculosis DXPS and Escherichia coli IspD. We have chosen these two enzymes due to the availability of the crystal structures that helped to elucidate the putative binding modes of the NPs identified. The screening of a NP collection led to the discovery of myxobacteria-derived maracen A and Streptomyces-derived polyketomycin as the first NPs targeting these enzymes.

Antimicrobial resistance represents an escalating global health crisis, with drug-resistant infections predicted to cause up to 10 million deaths annually by 2050, underscoring the urgent need for nov...

The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute has announced the Westerdijk Spring Symposium 2026, taking place April 13 to 14, 2026. This year’s event centres on the interdisciplinary theme ...

This study describes the isolation and characterization of potent bioactive compounds from the fungal strain Neonothopanus nambi, followed by structural elucidation. The compounds shown are dimeric a....

Phyton Biotech has successfully transferred the manufacturing process for the microbial production of Corallopyronin A (CorA). CorA is a novel anti-infective agent with the potential to address neglec...

In course of investigating the endophytic and nematode-associated fungus Polydomus karssenii for the production of secondary metabolites, seven previously undescribed natural products were isolated fr...

Fungi emerged approximately 2.4 billion years ago in primeval seas, likely colonising land before plants around one billion years ago

The genus Gibellula (Cordycipitaceae) comprises spider-pathogenic fungi. Three new species, G. pseudopigmentosa, G. pseudosolita, and G. sinensis, were discovered on spiders in the leaf litter of fore...

The new genus Garciamycella is here erected to accommodate the soil-borne fungus G. chlamydospora, as well as G. cyclaminis and G. fici, based on a phylogenetic study using sequences of ITS, LSU, rpb2...

Botanists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava

Dear fellow mycologists,Herewith, I would like to summarize the events of the previous 2025 that concerned the developments within the international mycological community and the International Mycolog...

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The Third Annual Meet of Association of Fungal Biologists (AFBCON-2025) took place in early December at the Department of Botany of Rajaram college in Maharashtra, India. The three-day event comm...

The family Epibryaceae is one of the early-diverging lineages within the order Chaetothyriales. Available molecular data show that most species are associated with mosses, liverworts, and lichens, typ...

Lasiodiplodia, a genus within the Botryosphaeriaceae family, comprises significant plant pathogens with a broad host range and global distribution, posing a substantial threat to agricultural producti...

The search for highly accurate chromosomal reference genomes has become a primary objective for the fungal research communities. Various genomic events, including insertions, deletions, inversions and...