FRANCO LOSILLA , Marta

The genus Fusarium is a heterogeneous group of phytopathogenic fungi that causes diseases in a large diversity of economically important plants. In addition, Fusarium species produce a wide variety of secondary metabolites, several of which have been investigated in Fusarium fujikuroi. Our group investigates in this fungus the molecular...

In the fungus Fusarium fujikuroi, carotenoid production is up-regulated by light and down-regulated by the CarS RING finger protein, which modulates the mRNA levels of carotenoid pathway genes (car genes). To identify new potential regulators of car genes, we used a biotin-mediated pull-down procedure to detect proteins capable of binding to...