Sabine Gruber

TL;DR: A better understanding of mycoparasitism is offered, and the development of improved biocontrol strains for efficient and environmentally friendly protection of plants is enforced.

TL;DR: The bioactivity of selected Trichoderma-derived secondary metabolites are discussed with a focus on their roles in the interactions of Trichodma with plants and fungal preys and an overview on methods for secondary metabolite profiling is given.

TL;DR: This genome-wide expression study demonstrates that the initial Trichoderma mycotrophy has differentiated into several alternative ecological strategies ranging from parasitism to predation and saprotrophy, and provides first insights into the mechanisms of interactions between Trichodma and other fungi that may be exploited for further development of biofungicides.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that the regulation of self and non-self fungal cell wall degradation is not due to a speciation of individual chitinases, but is regulated by substrate accessibility due to cell wall protection in healthy hyphae vs deprotection during mycoparasitic attack, hyphal ageing and autolysis.

TL;DR: Biological control, including the treatment of crop residues with antagonists, in order to reduce pathogen inoculum of FHB holds considerable promise and is confirmed by a qPCR approach.