Trichoderma: the genomics of opportunistic success. Academic Article

abstract

• Trichoderma is a genus of common filamentous fungi that display a remarkable range of lifestyles and interactions with other fungi, animals and plants. Because of their ability to antagonize plant-pathogenic fungi and to stimulate plant growth and defence responses, some Trichoderma strains are used for biological control of plant diseases. In this Review, we discuss recent advances in molecular ecology and genomics which indicate that the interactions of Trichoderma spp. with animals and plants may have evolved as a result of saprotrophy on fungal biomass (mycotrophy) and various forms of parasitism on other fungi (mycoparasitism), combined with broad environmental opportunism.

authors

• Kenerley, Charles

published proceedings

• Nat Rev Microbiol

altmetric score

• 8.6

author list (cited authors)

• Druzhinina, I. S., Seidl-Seiboth, V., Herrera-Estrella, A., Horwitz, B. A., Kenerley, C. M., Monte, E., ... Kubicek, C. P.

citation count

• 666

complete list of authors

• Druzhinina, Irina S||Seidl-Seiboth, Verena||Herrera-Estrella, Alfredo||Horwitz, Benjamin A||Kenerley, Charles M||Monte, Enrique||Mukherjee, Prasun K||Zeilinger, Susanne||Grigoriev, Igor V||Kubicek, Christian P

publication date

• January 2011

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Nature Reviews Microbiology  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Genes, Fungal
• Genome, Fungal
• Hypocrea
• Nematoda
• Plant Development
• Plant Diseases
• Plants
• Rhizosphere
• Soil Microbiology
• Symbiosis
• Trichoderma

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1038/nrmicro2637

start page

• 749

end page

• 759

volume

• 9

issue

• 10

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1038%2Fnrmicro2637