Caroline B. Michielse

TL;DR: More than 120 different formae speciales have been identified based on specificity to host species belonging to a wide range of plant families as mentioned in this paper, which can cause severe losses in many vegetables and flowers, field crops, such as cotton, and plantation crops such as banana, date palm and oil palm.

TL;DR: The potential of the Agrobacterium DNA transfer system to be used as a tool for targeted and random mutagenesis in fungi is discussed.

TL;DR: An efficient protocol for AMT of Aspergillus awamori is described, which has been used to determine the function of Agrobacterium virulence genes during AMT, to identify factors influencing transformation frequencies, to generate insertional mutants and to generate A. Awamori gene knockout transformants.

TL;DR: A 63-kb intragenic LARGE deletion in a family with Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS), which is characterized by CMD, and severe structural brain and eye malformations, demonstrates that LARGE gene mutations can give rise to a wide clinical spectrum, similar to other genes that have a role in the post-translational modification of the α-dystroglycan protein.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified a homolog of a master regulator of morphological switch in the plant pathogenic fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. lycopersici, which causes vascular wilt disease in tomato by penetrating the plant roots and colonizing the vascular tissue.