Feng Cai

ORCID: 0000-0003-2032-6190
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Research Areas
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Plant and fungal interactions
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Biochemical and biochemical processes
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Pesticide Residue Analysis and Safety
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Toxin Mechanisms and Immunotoxins
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Sun Yat-sen University
2022-2025

Nanjing Agricultural University
2020-2024

TU Wien
2020-2021

Sichuan University
2007-2016

Abstract Modern taxonomy has developed towards the establishment of global authoritative lists species that assume standardized principles recognition, at least in a given taxonomic group. However, fungi, delimitation is frequently subjective because it depends on choice concept and criteria selected by taxonomist. Contrary to it, identification fungal expected be accurate precise should predict properties are required for applications or relevant pathology. The industrial plant-beneficial...

10.1007/s13225-020-00464-4 article EN cc-by Fungal Diversity 2021-02-05

Fungal evolutionary biology is impeded by the scarcity of fossils, irregular life cycles, immortality, and frequent asexual reproduction. Simple diminutive bodies fungi develop inside a substrate have exceptional metabolic ecological plasticity, which hinders species delimitation. However, unique fungal traits can shed light on forces that shape environmental adaptations these taxa. Higher filamentous disperse through aerial spores produce amphiphilic highly surface-active proteins called...

10.1038/s41396-020-0709-0 article EN cc-by The ISME Journal 2020-07-06

(1) Background: Mechanisms of cellular and molecular adaptation fungi to salinity have been commonly drawn from halotolerant strains few studies in basidiomycete fungi. These conducted settings where cells are subjected stress, either hypo- or hyperosmotic, which can be a confounding factor describing physiological mechanisms related salinity. (2) Methods: We studied transcriptomic changes Aspergillussydowii, halophilic species, when growing three different conditions (No NaCl, 0.5 M, 2.0 M...

10.3390/cells9030525 article EN cc-by Cells 2020-02-25

Cerato-platanins (CPs) form a family of fungal small secreted cysteine-rich proteins (SSCPs) and are particular interest not only because their surface activity but also abundant secretion by fungi. We performed an evolutionary analysis 283 CPs from 157 genomes with the focus on environmental opportunistic plant-beneficial mycoparasitic fungus Trichoderma Our results revealed long history in Dikarya fungi that have undergone several events lateral gene transfer duplication. Three genes were...

10.1128/aem.00696-20 article EN Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2020-04-21

Abstract Fungi play essential ecological roles and have been utilized by humans for diverse applications such as industrial enzyme production or sources of bioactive compounds. Recent research has highlighted the Amphisphaeriales order ( Ascomycota ) promising producers secondary metabolites pharmaceutical importance. Within this family, recently established genus Neoarthrinium includes species N. brasiliensis, lithocarpicola, moseri, trachycarpi, urticae . Existing literature primarily...

10.1101/2025.04.28.650913 preprint EN cc-by bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2025-04-28

Higher fungi can rapidly produce large numbers of spores suitable for aerial dispersal. The efficiency the dispersal and spore resilience to abiotic stresses correlate with their hydrophobicity provided by unique amphiphilic superior surface-active proteins–hydrophobins (HFBs)–that self-assemble at hydrophobic/hydrophilic interfaces thus modulate surface properties. Using HFB-enriched mold Trichoderma (Hypocreales, Ascomycota) HFB-free yeast Pichia pastoris (Saccharomycetales, Ascomycota),...

10.1371/journal.pgen.1009924 article EN cc-by PLoS Genetics 2021-11-17

Summary The secretomes of filamentous fungi contain a diversity small secreted cysteine‐rich proteins (SSCPs) that have variety properties ranging from toxicity to surface activity. Some SSCPs are recognized by other organisms as indicators fungal presence, but their function in is not fully understood. We detected new family surface‐active (saSSCPs), here named hyphosphere (HFSs). An evolutionary analysis the HFSs Pezizomycotina revealed unique pattern eight single cysteine residues...

10.1111/1462-2920.15413 article EN Environmental Microbiology 2021-02-07

Abstract Understanding how organisms adapt to extreme living conditions is central evolutionary biology. Dark septate endophytes (DSEs) constitute an important component of the root mycobiome and they are often able alleviate host abiotic stresses. Here, we investigated molecular mechanisms underlying beneficial association between DSE Laburnicola rhizohalophila its host, native halophyte Suaeda salsa, using population genomics. Based on genome-wide Fst (pairwise fixation index) Vst...

10.1038/s41396-021-01023-8 article EN cc-by The ISME Journal 2021-06-09

Sustainable agriculture requires effective and safe biofertilizers biofungicides with low environmental impact. Natural ecosystems that closely resemble the conditions of biosaline may present a reservoir for fungal strains can be used as novel bioeffectors.

10.1111/jam.14751 article EN cc-by Journal of Applied Microbiology 2020-06-27

A method based on automated gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and on-line quantitative concentration was developed for the determination of residues 38 typically used pesticides in high-oil peanuts. Pesticides were extracted using acetonitrile into an oil fraction containing little peanut matrix. After changing solvent to mobile phase (1 : 1 cyclohexane ethyl acetate), clean-up carried out GPC, final collected solution being automatically concentrated a fixed volume transferred vials gas...

10.1080/02652030802350672 article EN Food Additives & Contaminants Part A 2009-03-01

Abstract The pharmacological importance of recombinant human stem cell factor (rhSCF) has increased the demand to establish effective and large‐scale production purification processes. A good source bioactive protein with capability being scaled‐up without losing activity always been a challenge. objectives study were rapid efficient pilot‐scale expression rhSCF. gene encoding (SCF) was cloned into pBV220 transformed Escherichia coli . SCF expressed isolated using procedure consisting...

10.1002/bab.1517 article EN Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry 2016-06-15

Mouse PNAS-4 (mPNAS-4) has 96% identity with human (hPNAS-4) in primary sequence and been reported to be involved the apoptotic response DNA damage. However, there have no studies of biological functions mPNAS-4. In conducted by our group (unpublished data), it was interesting note that overexpression mPNAS-4 promoted death Lewis lung carcinoma cells (LL2) colon (CT26) mice both vitro vivo. studies, cloned into pGEX-6P-1 vector GST tag at N-terminal Escherichia coli strain BL21(DE3). The...

10.1590/s0100-879x2008000600012 article EN cc-by Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 2008-06-01
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