title: Trichoderma: the genomics of opportunistic success.
abstract: Trichoderma is a genus of common filamentous fungi that display a remarkable range of lifestyles and interactions with other fungi, animals and plants. Because of their ability to antagonize plant-pathogenic fungi and to stimulate plant growth and defence responses, some Trichoderma strains are used for biological control of plant diseases. In this Review, we discuss recent advances in molecular ecology and genomics which indicate that the interactions of Trichoderma spp. with animals and plants may have evolved as a result of saprotrophy on fungal biomass (mycotrophy) and various forms of parasitism on other fungi (mycoparasitism), combined with broad environmental opportunism.
authors.affiliation: Area Gene Technology and Applied Biochemistry, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
authors.forename: Irina S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Druzhinina
authors.forename: Verena
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Seidl-Seiboth
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Herrera-Estrella
authors.forename: Benjamin A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Horwitz
authors.forename: Charles M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Kenerley
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Monte
authors.forename: Prasun K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: Susanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zeilinger
authors.forename: Igor V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Grigoriev
authors.forename: Christian P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Kubicek
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D035901:Hypocrea / Q000502:physiology; D009348:Nematoda / Q000382:microbiology*; D063245:Plant Development; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology*; D058441:Rhizosphere; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D013559:Symbiosis; D014242:Trichoderma / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology*