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Irina S. Druzhinina

Irina S. Druzhinina

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
74
Citations
17847
World Ranking
5653
National Ranking
48

Overview

Irina S. Druzhinina is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work emphasizes plant science and molecular biology, with additional focus areas including cell biology, pharmacology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's research spans a variety of topics related primarily to fungi and plant interactions. Major topics covered in their work include:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Biofuel Production and Bioconversion
  • Fungal and Yeast Genetics Research
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

The research outputs of Irina S. Druzhinina have been published in an array of scientific journals, frequently appearing in venues such as:

  • Fungal Biology Reviews
  • The ISME Journal
  • Fungal Diversity
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Methods in Molecular Biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding? (2020, IMA Fungus)
  • In honor of John Bissett: authoritative guidelines on molecular identification of Trichoderma (2021, Fungal Diversity)
  • Fungal taxonomy and sequence-based nomenclature (2021, Nature Microbiology)
  • Pushing the Frontiers of Biodiversity Research: Unveiling the Global Diversity, Distribution, and Conservation of Fungi (2023, Annual Review of Environment and Resources)
  • From lignocellulose to plastics: Knowledge transfer on the degradation approaches by fungi (2021, Biotechnology Advances)

Irina S. Druzhinina collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Feng Cai
  • Mohammad Javad Rahimi
  • Komal Chenthamara
  • Paul Daly

Best Publications

  • Trichoderma : the genomics of opportunistic success

    Irina S. Druzhinina;Verena Seidl-Seiboth;Alfredo Herrera-Estrella;Benjamin A. Horwitz

  • Comparative genome sequence analysis underscores mycoparasitism as the ancestral life style of Trichoderma

    Christian P Kubicek;Alfredo Herrera-Estrella;Verena Seidl-Seiboth;Diego A Martinez

  • An oligonucleotide barcode for species identification in Trichoderma and Hypocrea.

    Irina S. Druzhinina;Alexei G. Kopchinskiy;Monika Komoń;John Bissett

  • The Amsterdam Declaration on Fungal Nomenclature

    David L. Hawksworth;David L. Hawksworth;Pedro W. Crous;Scott A. Redhead;Don R. Reynolds

  • Unambiguous identification of fungi: where do we stand and how accurate and precise is fungal DNA barcoding?

    Robert Lücking;M. Catherine Aime;Barbara Robbertse;Andrew N. Miller

  • Microbially Mediated Plant Salt Tolerance and Microbiome-based Solutions for Saline Agriculture.

    Yuan Qin;Irina S. Druzhinina;Xueyu Pan;Zhilin Yuan

  • The first 100 Trichoderma species characterized by molecular data

    Irina S. Druzhinina;Alex G. Kopchinskiy;Christian P. Kubicek

  • Species concepts and biodiversity in Trichoderma and Hypocrea: from aggregate species to species clusters?

    Irina Druzhinina;Christian P Kubicek

  • Comparative transcriptomics reveals different strategies of Trichoderma mycoparasitism

    Lea Atanasova;Stephane Le Crom;Sabine Gruber;Fanny Coulpier;Fanny Coulpier;Fanny Coulpier

  • Genetic and metabolic diversity of Trichoderma: a case study on South-East Asian isolates.

    Christian P Kubicek;John Bissett;Irina Druzhinina;Cornelia Kullnig-Gradinger

  • The Trichoderma koningii aggregate species

    Gary J. Samuels;Sarah L. Dodd;Bing-Sheng Lu;Orlando Petrini

  • Evolution and comparative genomics of the most common Trichoderma species

    Christian P. Kubicek;Andrei S. Steindorff;Andrei S. Steindorff;Komal Chenthamara;Gelsomina Manganiello;Gelsomina Manganiello

  • Hypocrea rufa/Trichoderma viride: a reassessment, and description of five closely related species with and without warted conidia

    Walter M. Jaklitsch;Gary J. Samuels;Sarah L. Dodd;Bing-Sheng Lu

  • Specialized Microbiome of a Halophyte and its Role in Helping Non-Host Plants to Withstand Salinity.

    Zhilin Yuan;Irina S. Druzhinina;Jessy Labbé;Regina Redman

  • Tracking the roots of cellulase hyperproduction by the fungus Trichoderma reesei using massively parallel DNA sequencing

    Stéphane Le Crom;Wendy Schackwitz;Len Pennacchio;Jon K. Magnuson

  • Genetic engineering of Trichoderma reesei cellulases and their production

    Irina S. Druzhinina;Christian P. Kubicek

  • The CRE1 carbon catabolite repressor of the fungus Trichoderma reesei: a master regulator of carbon assimilation

    Thomas Portnoy;Thomas Portnoy;Antoine Margeot;Rita Linke;Lea Atanasova

  • Fungal genus Hypocrea/Trichoderma: from barcodes to biodiversity

    Christian P. Kubicek;Monika Komon-Zelazowska;Irina S. Druzhinina

  • The Hypocrea jecorina (Trichoderma reesei) hypercellulolytic mutant RUT C30 lacks a 85 kb (29 gene-encoding) region of the wild-type genome

    Verena Seidl;Christian Gamauf;Irina S Druzhinina;Bernhard Seiboth

  • TrichoBLAST: a multilocus database for Trichoderma and Hypocrea identifications

    Alexey Kopchinskiy;Monika Komoń;Christian P. Kubicek;Irina S. Druzhinina

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Qirong Shen
Qirong Shen Nanjing Agricultural University
Csaba Vágvölgyi
Csaba Vágvölgyi University of Szeged
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Scott E. Baker
Scott E. Baker Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Monika Schmoll
Monika Schmoll University of Vienna
George Szakacs
George Szakacs Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Charles M. Kenerley
Charles M. Kenerley Texas A&M University

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