Fungal strategies for dealing with environment- and agriculture-induced stresses.

Drauzio E N Rangel, Roger D Finlay, John E Hallsworth, Ekaterina Dadachova, Geoffrey Michael Gadd

Journal: Fungal biology 2019;122(6):602-612

PMID: 29801805

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Abstract

The Fungal Kingdom is responsible for many ecosystem services as well as many industrial and agricultural products. Nevertheless, how these fungal species function and carry out these services is dependent on their capacity to grow under different stress conditions caused by a variety of abiotic factors such as ionizing radiation, UV radiation, extremes of temperature, acidity and alkalinity, and environments of low nutritional status, low water activity, or polluted with, e.g. toxic metals or xenobiotics. This article reviews some natural or synthetic environments where fungi thrive under stress and have important impacts in agriculture and forestry.

Address: Universidade Federal de Goiás, Instituto de Patologia Tropical e Saúde Pública, Goiânia, GO, 74605-050, Brazil.; Uppsala Biocenter, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7026, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden.; Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, MBC, Queen's University Belfast, BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland, UK.; College of Pharmacy and Nutrition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E5, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].; Geomicrobiology Group. School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee. Dundee, DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK.

DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2018.02.002

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MeSH Terms: Agriculture, Forestry, Fungi, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Metals, Stress, Physiological, Temperature, Ultraviolet Rays, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Xenobiotics