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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysis of gene expression related to polyamine concentration and dimorphism induced in ornithine decarboxylase (odc) and spermidine synthase (spd) Ustilago maydis mutants	52
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	25
Distribution and dynamics of hyphal organelles	21
Drafting Penicillium oxalicum calcineurin-CrzA pathway by combining the analysis of phenotype, transcriptome, and endogenous protein–protein interactions	21
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	21
Editorial Board	19
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
Transcription factor lineages in plant-pathogenic fungi, connecting diversity with fungal virulence	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	16
Acetolactate synthases regulatory subunit and catalytic subunit genes VdILVs are involved in BCAA biosynthesis, microscletotial and conidial formation and virulence in Verticillium dahliae	16
Detection and quantification of the histone code in the fungal genus Aspergillus	15
Identification of the polyketide synthase gene responsible for the synthesis of tanzawaic acids in Penicillium steckii IBWF104-06	15
Comparative proteomic analysis of two divergent strains provides insights into thermotolerance mechanisms of Ganoderma lingzhi	15
FungANI, a BLAST-based program for analyzing average nucleotide identity (ANI) between two fungal genomes, enables easy fungal species delimitation	14
Bioprospecting of the probiotic potential of yeasts isolated from a wine environment	14
Alternaria alstroemeriae F1 inhibits aspergillus flavus growth and weakens aflatoxins biosynthesis	14
Predicting functions of putative fungal sesquiterpene synthase genes based on multiomics data analysis	13
Aspergillus fumigatus isolated from diverse wildfowl exhibit distinct antifungal susceptibility profiles driven by genetic and non-genetic determinants	13
Role of the anillin-like protein in growth of Cryptococcus neoformans at human host temperature	13
A microscopy-based image analysis pipeline for the quantification of germination of filamentous fungi	12
Transcription factors Fst8, Ftr3 and Gat1 are regulators of the immune system of the mushroom Schizophyllum commune	12
Identification of a polyketide biosynthesis gene cluster by transcriptional regulator activation in Aspergillus terreus	12
Identification and characterisation of sPEPs in Cryptococcus neoformans	12
Full-length Chd1 of Coprinopsis cinerea is expressed after the dark period required for fruiting body maturation and impacts meiotic progression	12

The conidial coin toss: A polarized conidial adhesive in Colletotrichum graminicola	12
Comparative transcriptomics of growth metabolism and virulence reveal distinct morphogenic profiles of yeast-like cells and hyphae of the fungus Metarhizium rileyi	11
A transcription factor and a phosphatase regulate temperature-dependent morphogenesis in the fungal plant pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici	11
Editorial Board	11
Discerning the global phylogeographic distribution of Phyllosticta citricarpa by means of whole genome sequencing	11
BcHnm1, a predicted choline transporter, modulates conidial germination and virulence in Botrytis cinerea	11
Editorial Board	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
Candida albicans strains adapted to the mouse gut are resistant to bile salts via a Flo8-dependent mechanism	10
Genomic regions associated with virulence in Setosphaeria turcica identified by linkage mapping in a biparental population	9
Functional analysis of basidiomycete specific chitin synthase genes in the agaricomycete fungus Pleurotus ostreatus	9
First report on the regulation and function of carbon metabolism during large sclerotia formation in medicinal fungus Wolfiporia cocos	9
Genus-wide analysis of Fusarium polyketide synthases reveals broad chemical potential	9
AwSclB regulates a network for Aspergillus westerdijkiae asexual sporulation and secondary metabolism independent of the fungal light control	9
The arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis harmonizes nuclear dynamics in the presence of distinct abiotic factors	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
Fungal microtubule organizing centers are evolutionarily unstable structures	9
Two typical acyl-CoA-binding proteins (ACBPs) are required for the asexual development and virulence of Phytophthora sojae	9
Autophagy-related protein UvAtg7 contributes to mycelial growth, virulence, asexual reproduction and cell stress response in rice false smut fungus Ustilaginoidea virens	8
Association between genomic single nucleotide polymorphisms and susceptibility of Talaromyces marneffei	8
The Cys2-His2 zinc finger transcription factor NsdC regulates hyphal branching, conidiation and mycelial pellet morphology in Aspergillus oryzae	8
Localisation of phosphoinositides in the grass endophyte Epichloë festucae and genetic and functional analysis of key components of their biosynthetic pathway in E. festucae symbiosis and Fusarium oxy	8
The effect of exogenous addition of metformin hydrochloride on lipid synthesis in Mucor circinelloides WJ11	8
Benchmarking fungal species classification using Oxford Nanopore Technologies long-read ITS metabarcodes	8
Proteomic dissection of the role of GliZ in gliotoxin biosynthesis in Aspergillus fumigatus	8
Decrypting biocontrol functions and application modes by genomes data of three Trichoderma Strains/Species	8
The interactome of the UapA transporter reveals putative new players in anterograde membrane cargo trafficking	8
Critical role of Wat1/Pop3 in regulating the TORC1 signalling pathway in fission yeast S. pombe	7
Extracellular targeting of Neurospora crassa cell wall and secreted glycoproteins by DFG-5	7
CfErp3 regulates growth, conidiation, inducing ipomeamarone and the pathogenicity of Ceratocystis fimbriata	7
Multiple scenarios for sexual crosses in the fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici on wheat residues: Potential consequences for virulence gene transmission	7
Identification of putative fungal reference genes with stable expression from large RNA-seq datasets	7
Distinct roles for different autophagy-associated genes in the virulence of the fungal wheat pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici	7
Characterization of a GH12 family glycosyl hydrolase from Neurospora crassa	7
Analysis of the emerging physical network in young mycelia	7
Exploring endophytic fungi from Cynodon dactylon: GC–MS profiling and biological activity	7
Update on the structure and function of Candida albicans drug efflux protein, Cdr1	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
Genomic, transcriptomic, and ecological diversity of Penicillium species in cheese rind microbiomes	6
Classification and functional prediction of fungal glycosyltransferases using machine learning and deep learning methods	6
A peroxisomal sterol carrier protein 2 (Scp2) contributes to lipid trafficking in differentiation and virulence of the insect pathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana	6
Anaerobic fungi contain abundant, diverse, and transcriptionally active Long Terminal Repeat retrotransposons	6
Mechanistic investigations of hirsutene biosynthesis catalyzed by a chimeric sesquiterpene synthase from Steccherinum ochraceum	6
Fungal cell death: The beginning of the end	6
Methyl jasmonate differentially and tissue-specifically regulated the expression of arginine catabolism–related genes and proteins in Agaricus bisporus mushrooms during storage	6
The impact of glutamine synthetase PbgsA on the growth, conidiation and mycophenolic acid production of Penicillium brevicompactum	6
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	6
Quinidine drug resistance transporter knockout Candida cells modulate glucose transporter expression and accumulate metabolites leading to enhanced azole drug resistance	6
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing reveals that the Pgs gene of Fusarium circinatum is involved in pathogenicity, growth and sporulation	5

The transcriptional activator ClrB is crucial for the degradation of soybean hulls and guar gum in Aspergillus niger	5
Functional characterization of endo-β-1,3-glucanase in Trichoderma reesei	5
Editorial Board	5
Physiological function of hydrophobin Hydph16 in cell wall formation in agaricomycete Pleurotus ostreatus	5
Botrytis cinerea detoxifies the sesquiterpenoid phytoalexin rishitin through multiple metabolizing pathways	5
The C2H2-type zinc-finger regulator AoKap5 is required for the growth and kojic acid synthesis in Aspergillus oryzae	5
Saccharomyces cerevisiae recovery from various mild abiotic stresses: Viability, fitness, and high resolution three-dimensional morphology imaging	5
Editorial Board	5
Conserved copper regulation of the antimicrobial isocyanide brassicicolin A in Alternaria brassicicola	5
Optimizing fungal extracellular vesicle proteomic profiling through combined analysis of in-solution and in-gel digestion	5
The establishment of multiple knockout mutants of Colletotrichum orbiculare by CRISPR-Cas9 and Cre-loxP systems	5
Editorial Board	5
Unidirectional mating-type switching is underpinned by a conserved MAT1 locus architecture	5
Editorial Board	5
Editorial Board	4
Multi-locus sequencing typing reveals geographically related intraspecies variability of Sporothrix brasiliensis	4
Candida glabrata Hst1-Rfm1-Sum1 complex evolved to control virulence-related genes	4
Putative transcription factor Nrg1 is involved in the hyphal branching and the cell wall structure formation in the filamentous fungus Pleurotus ostreatus	4
Highly dynamic supernumerary mini-chromosomes in a Magnaporthe oryzae strain contributes to cellular variance of genomic content	4
Nanosized extracellular vesicles released by Neurospora crassa hyphae	4
Two ferrous iron transporter-like proteins independently participate in asexual development under iron limitation and virulence in Beauveria bassiana	4
Septum-associated microtubule organizing centers within conidia support infectious development by the blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae	4
Function of the phosphatidylinositol synthase Pis1 in maintenance of endoplasmic reticulum function and pathogenicity in Candida albicans	4
Editorial Board	4
Detailed analysis of the D-galactose catabolic pathways in Aspergillus niger reveals complexity at both metabolic and regulatory level	4
Identification of a novel genetic locus conferring virulence in the wheat tan spot pathogen Pyrenophora tritici-repentis	4
Colony differentiation of saprobic and pathogenic fungi in relation to carbon utilization	4
Optimized convolutional neural networks for real-time detection and severity assessment of early blight in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)	4
Tandem repeats in precursor protein stabilize transcript levels and production levels of the fungal ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide ustiloxin B	4
Endocytosis in filamentous Fungi: Coordinating polarized hyphal growth and membrane recycling	4
Where to grow and where to go	4
Intracellular sequestration of cadmium and zinc in ectomycorrhizal fungus Amanita muscaria (Agaricales, Amanitaceae) and characterization of its metallothionein gene	4
Compound mutagenesis boosts β-carotene biosynthesis in Neurospora crassa: ATP synthase mutation and enzymes activities enhancement	4
Genome-wide survey and evolutionary history of the pectin methylesterase (PME) gene family in the Dothideomycetes class of fungi	4
Hyphae: Tubular creators of the fungal kingdom	4
Analysis of the genetic diversity of the soybean rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi reveals two major evolutionary lineages	4
Nearly telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the L. edodes diploid genome	4
Septin AoCDC11 is involved in trap morphogenesis, conidiation, and vegetative growth in carnivorous Arthrobotrys oligospora	4
Global transcriptome changes during growth of a novel Penicillium coffeae isolate on the wheat stripe rust fungus, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici	4
Tools to make Stachybotrys chartarum genetically amendable: Key to unlocking cryptic biosynthetic gene clusters	4
Identification of two genes essential for basidiospore formation during the postmeiotic stages in Pleurotus ostreatus	3
Expression of endogenous UDP-glucosyltransferase in endophyte Phomopsis liquidambaris reduces deoxynivalenol contamination in wheat	3
Microevolution of Candida glabrata (Nakaseomyces glabrata) during an infection	3
Visualising long distance sugar transport in fungi using infrared fluorescence scanning imaging	3
The role of NLRP3/caspase−/GSDMD signal axis mediated cell pyroptosis in the pathogenicity of T. asahii	3
Diversity of the manganese lipoxygenase gene family – A mini-review	3
Multi-locus sequence typing and phylogenetics of Cryptococcus neoformans AD hybrids	3
Influence of H3K9 methylation on gene mutation rates in yeast: Advancing epigenetic research with controlled experimental design	3
Love in the time of climate change: A review of sexual reproduction in the order Onygenales	3
Coordination of two regulators SscA and VosA in Aspergillus nidulans conidia	3
Editorial Board	3
Distinctive carbon repression effects in the carbohydrate-selective wood decay fungus Rhodonia placenta	3
CsAtf1, a bZIP transcription factor, is involved in fludioxonil sensitivity and virulence in the rubber tree anthracnose fungus Colletotrichum siamense	3
New simple sequence repeat markers reveal undetected diversity in Spanish and Californian Diplodia sapinea populations	3
Zymocin-like killer toxin gene clusters in the nuclear genomes of filamentous fungi	3
Characterization of the Trr/Trx system in the fungal pathogen Candida glabrata	3
Corrigendum to “Biological characterization of the melanin biosynthesis gene Bcscd1 in the plant pathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea” [Fungal Genet. Biol. 160 (2022) 103693]	3