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ArticleFungal genetics and biology : FG & B2020

Fungi, fungicide discovery and global food security.

Gero Steinberg, Sarah J Gurr

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Article in Fungal genetics and biology : FG & B, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
5.0field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 162 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Essential oil of ocimum gratissimum as a natural fungicide against pathogenic fungi of fruit crops and molecular docking studies.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2026
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  7. Advances in the Control of Plant Fungal Pathogens.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  18. Fungal Chitin Synthases: Structure, Function, and Regulation.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gero SteinbergSchool of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK; University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, Utrecht 3584 CH, the Netherlands. Electronic address: G.Steinberg@exeter.ac.uk.
Sarah J GurrSchool of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK; University of Utrecht, Padualaan 8, Utrecht 3584 CH, the Netherlands. Electronic address: S.J.Gurr@exeter.ac.uk.
University of Exeter · GBUtrecht University · NL

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/I025956/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/N020847/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/P018335/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Securing sufficient food for a growing world population is of paramount importance for social stability and the well-being of mankind. Recently, it has become evident that fungal pathogens pose the greatest biotic challenge to our calorie crops. Moreover, the loss of commodity crops to fungal disease destabilises the economies of developing nations, thereby increasing the dimension of the threat. Our best weapon to control these pathogens is fungicides, but increasing resistance puts us in an arms race against them. New anti-fungal compounds need to be discovered, such as mono-alky lipophilic cations (MALCs) described herein. Collaborations between academia and industry are imperative to establish new and efficient ways to develop these new fungicides and to bring them to the market-place.

Indexed as

Food SecurityCrops, AgriculturalDrug Resistance, FungalFungiFungicides, IndustrialHumansPlant DiseasesFungicides, IndustrialCrop diseaseFood securityFungiFungicides

Identifiers

PMID33053432
PMCPMC7755035
OpenAlexW3092552400

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Registered trials

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