AtfA-Independent Adaptation to the Toxic Heavy Metal Cadmium in .

Cadmium is an exceptionally toxic industrial and environmental pollutant classified as a human carcinogen. In order to provide insight into how we can keep our environment safe from cadmium contamination and prevent the accumulation of it in the food chain, we aim to elucidate how , one of the most abundant fungi in soil, survives and handles cadmium stress. As AtfA is the main transcription factor governing stress responses in , we examined genome-wide expression responses of wild-type and the null mutant exposed to CdCl.