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    Trichoderma: Biodiversity, Abundances, and Biotechnological Applications

    Trichoderma are the ubiquitous green spore-producing fungi. They are characterized as filamentous fungi able to successfully colonize different habitats and possess efficient degradative machinery for the decompo...

    Imran Afzal, Ambreen Sabir, Shomaila Sikandar in Recent Trends in Mycological Research (2021)

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    Fungal Secondary Metabolites and Bioactive Compounds for Plant Defense

    Crop diseases are among the main constraints in adequate production of food crops and impose significant losses to global agricultural system. Considerable crop losses are caused by phytopathogens which need t...

    Shomaila Sikandar, Asfand Yar Saqib in Agriculturally Important Fungi for Sustain… (2020)

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    Lignocellulose-Degrading Thermophilic Fungi and Their Prospects in Natural Rubber Extraction from Plants

    Fungi have the ability to grow in diverse habitats and over a wide temperature range. Those that can grow between 45 °C and 55 °C are termed “thermophiles.” Thermophilic fungi were previously discovered in the...

    Shomaila Sikandar, Imran Afzal, Naeem Ali in Fungi in Extreme Environments: Ecological … (2019)