Salicylic Acid Treatment Alleviates the Heat Stress Response by Reducing the Intracellular ROS Level and Increasing the Cytosolic Trehalose Content in Pleurotus ostreatus.

Pleurotus ostreatus is usually cultivated in horticultural facilities that lack environmental control systems and often suffer heat stress (HS). Salicylic acid (SA) is recognized as a plant defense-related hormone. Here, SA treatment (200 μM) induced fungal resistance to HS of , with decreased malondialdehyde (MDA) content and expression.

Functional Roles of -like Genes in Fungal Growth, Cellulase Activity, and Secondary Metabolism in .

The global regulator LaeA plays crucial roles in morphological development and secondary metabolite biosynthesis in filamentous fungi. However, the functions of LaeA in basidiomycetes are less reported. The basidiomycete is a well-known fungus used both in medicine and as food that produces polysaccharides and cellulolytic enzymes.

The non-canonical functions of telomerase reverse transcriptase gene GlTert on regulating fungal growth, oxidative stress, and ganoderic acid biosynthesis in Ganoderma lucidum.

The telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) is the core catalytic subunit of telomerase. Its canonical function is synthesizing telomeric repeats to maintain telomere length and chromosomal stability. Accumulating evidence suggests that TERT has other important fundamental functions in addition to its catalytic telomere repeat synthesis activity.