Krishnendu Mukherjee

TL;DR: The greater wax moth Galleria mellonella is used as a model host for examining the virulence potential of Listeria spp.

TL;DR: It is shown that melanism is clearly correlated with increased fungal resistance, the costly mechanisms enabling this protective trait constitute more than just a colour change, and the heavy defence investments made by melanic insects result in a lower biomass, decreased longevity and lower fecundity in comparison with their non-melanic counterparts.

TL;DR: Deep sequencing of cDNAs obtained from fractioned RNA isolated from extracellularly growing bacteria and from L. monocytogenes infected macrophages reveals extensive sRNA expression as an important feature of bacterial regulation during intracellular growth, with additional loss in non-pathogenic listerial genomes.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the insects developed a transgenerationally primed resistance to the fungus B. bassiana, a costly trait that was achieved not by compromising life-history traits but rather by prioritizing and re-allocating pathogen-species-specific augmentations to integumental front-line defenses that are most likely to be encountered by invading fungi.

TL;DR: HvHsp70 is the first gene found to systemically indicate root colonization with endophytic fungi of the order Sebacinales, a wheat gene inducible by chemical resistance inducers and salicylate, and was previously proven to exhibit antifungal activity against B. graminis.