CSBJAug 19, 2025

🌾 How close are we to using AI to design crops with supercharged immunity?

🔗 Learning the language of plant immunity: opportunities and challenges for AI-assisted modelling of fungal effector x host protein complexes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.06.048

📚 CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/

#PlantImmunity #PlantPathology #MolecularBiology #ProteinInteractions #StructuralBiology #CropProtection #FoodSecurity #AgriTech #FungalPathogens

LionelBJun 5, 2024

We have Photinia leaf spot. A result of the steady rain.

I plan to take a hygiene approach and maybe prune later on.

Does anyone in Europe have experience with this and some insights?

#gardening #fungalpathogens #photinia

Teresita Porter 🙋🏻‍♀️Jun 4, 2024

**Effects of climate change on fungal infections**

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1012219

#mycology #fungi #FungalPathogens #ClimateChange

Effects of climate change on fungal infections

Marc KodackFeb 17, 2024

Another article on the increasing incidence of Valley fever. (Here is information from the CDC on climate change and fungal infections and what to do, https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/climate.html)

Intensifying atmospheric rivers are leading to a surge in Valley fever cases in California

https://grist.org/health/intensifying-atmospheric-rivers-are-leading-to-a-surge-in-valley-fever-cases-in-california/

#climate, #climatechange, #valleyfever, #fungalpathogens, #Coccidioidomycosis

Climate Change and Fungal Diseases | CDC

Changes in climate can affect how fungi interact with humans, animals, and plants.

StarFlowerStudioNYAug 16, 2023
Heterobasidion annosum, a fungi that infects conifers.

#fungi #fungalpathogens
EmilyMay 2, 2023
An excellent overview of why #fungalpathogens are so important especially in crop plants. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01465-4 #agriculture #science
Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops

More political and public awareness of the plight of the world’s crops when it comes to fungal disease is crucial to stave off a major threat to global food security.

EmilyMar 21, 2023
Candida auris, an emergent fungal infection. Possibly climate related. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/20/candida-auris-fungus-infection/ #fungalpathogens
Deadly fungal infection rapidly spreading in U.S. health facilities

Fungal infections from the yeast strain known as Candida auris tripled nationally from 476 in 2019 to 1,471 in 2021, according to CDC data.

The Washington Post
EmilyMar 20, 2023
Rusts are one of the most feared fungal pathogens in plants. They make spores which can easily spread on the wind. https://theconversation.com/what-is-myrtle-rust-and-why-has-this-disease-closed-lord-howe-island-to-visitors-202045
#fungalpathogens #fungus
What is myrtle rust and why has this disease closed Lord Howe Island to visitors?

Spread by the wind, the fungal rusts are among the most feared of all plant diseases. A 2016 myrtle rust outbreak on Lord Howe Island was contained, but now its unique plants are again under threat.

The Conversation
EmilyFeb 17, 2023
Another good one on pathogenic fungi: https://theconversation.com/before-the-last-of-us-i-was-part-of-an-international-team-to-chart-the-threat-of-killer-fungi-this-is-what-we-found-199593 #pathogens #fungalpathogens #science #medicine
Before The Last of Us, I was part of an international team to chart the threat of killer fungi. This is what we found

Dangerous fungal infections are on the rise globally. But we have few drugs that work and no prospect of anti-fungal vaccines any time soon.

The Conversation
EmilyFeb 15, 2023
"In contrast to bacteria and viruses, fungi only emerged as important human pathogens in the past few decades, primarily owing to changes in the landscape of human disease" fascinating article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-022-01112-0 #fungalpathogens
Evolution of the human pathogenic lifestyle in fungi - Nature Microbiology

Understanding the mechanisms and evolution of pathogenicity in fungi will bring us a step closer to reducing the annual toll of 1.6 million deaths from fungal disease.

Nature