2008/01/01 by Ana Plemenitaš, A. Plemenitaš, T. Vaupotič +7 · 2 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Fungal and yeast genetics research #Plant tissue culture and regeneration #Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
paper · doi:10.3114/sim.2008.61.06
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
Halophilic adaptations have been studied almost exclusively on prokaryotic microorganisms. Discovery of the black yeast Hortaea werneckii as the dominant fungal species in hypersaline waters enabled the introduction of a new model organism to study the mechanisms of salt tolerance in eukaryotes. Its strategies of cellular osmotic adaptations on the physiological and molecular level revealed novel, intricate mechanisms to combat fluctuating salinity. H. werneckii is an extremely halotolerant eukaryotic microorganism and thus a promising source of transgenes for osmotolerance improvement of industrially important yeasts, as well as in crops.