Parasitic nematodes cause great annual loss in the agricultural industry globally. is the most prevalent and common nematode-trapping fungus (NTF) in the environment and the candidate for the control of plant- and animal-parasitic nematodes. is also the first recognized and intensively studied NTF species. This review highlights the recent research advances of as a model to study the biological signals of the switch from saprophytism to predation and their sophisticated mechanisms for interacting with their invertebrate hosts, which is of vital importance for improving the engineering of this species as an effective biocontrol fungus. The application of in industry and agriculture, especially as biological control agents for sustainable purposes, was summarized, and we discussed the increasing role of in studying its sexual morph and genetic transformation in complementing biological control research.
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