Impacts of environmental stress on growth, secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters and metabolite production of xerotolerant/xerophilic fungi

Current Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 325-334

  Medina, Angel ^a   Schmidt Heydt, Markus ^b   Rodríguez, Alicia ^a   Parra, Roberto ^c   Geisen, Rolf ^b   Magan, Naresh ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

^c SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Gene clusters; Gene function; Modelling; Mycotoxins; Stress; Systems biology; Temperature; Water

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; AFLATOXIN B1; ERYTHRITOL; FUMONISIN B1; FUMONISIN B2; GLYCEROL; OCHRATOXIN; SUGAR ALCOHOL; WATER; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS CARBONARIUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS OCHRACEUS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD PROCESSING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; MEAT; METABOLITE; MODEL; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM NORDICUM; PENICILLIUM VERRUCOSUM; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; WATER STRESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECONDARY METABOLISM; TEMPERATURE;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM NORDICUM;

ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; METABOLOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHENOTYPE; SECONDARY METABOLISM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84937978576     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: 14320983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-014-0455-9     Document Type: Article

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