Background Patients with radioactive iodine ( 131 I)-refractory locally advanced or metastatic
differentiated thyroid cancer have a poor prognosis because of the absence of effective …

The ascomycetous fungus Nectria haematococca, (asexual name Fusarium solani), is a
member of a group of >50 species known as the “Fusarium solani species complex”. Members …

Covering: up to the end of February 2010 This review surveys the natural products described
from entomopathogenic Hypocrealean fungi, including their structures, biological activities, …

Wild Aegilops species related to cultivated wheat (Triticum spp.) possess numerous genes
of agronomic interest and can be valuable sources of resistance to diseases, pests and …

Monascus azaphilone pigments (MonAzPs) are very widely used as food colorants, but their
biosynthetic pathway has remained poorly characterized for more than half a century. In this …

Beauvericin, a cyclohexadepsipeptide ionophore from the entomopathogen Beauveria
bassiana, shows antibiotic, antifungal, insecticidal, and cancer cell antiproliferative and …

Beauveria bassiana is a facultative entomopathogen with an extremely broad host range that
is used as a commercial biopesticide for the control of insects of agricultural, veterinary and …

The introgression of chromosome segments from wild relatives is an established strategy to
enrich crop germplasm with disease-resistance genes 1 . Here we use mutagenesis and …

The physiological and morphological responses to water stress induced by polyethylene
glycol (PEG) or by withholding water were investigated in Aegilops biuncialis Vis. genotypes …

Pm1a, the first powdery mildew resistance gene described in wheat, is part of a complex
resistance (R) gene cluster located in a distal region of chromosome 7AL that has suppressed …