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Ursula Kües is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research spans several fields, primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. The scientist's work focuses extensively on fungal biology and its applications, enzyme-mediated dye degradation, and interactions between mycorrhizal fungi and plants.

The main fields of study represented in their publications include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, the subfields most frequently addressed are Plant Science, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering.

  • Plant Science
  • Pharmacology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Biotechnology
  • Biomedical Engineering

The core topics of Ursula Kües's research involve enzyme-mediated dye degradation, fungal biology and applications, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, microbial metabolism and applications, lignin and wood chemistry, and phytochemistry and bioactivity studies.

  • Enzyme-mediated dye degradation
  • Fungal Biology and Applications
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Microbial Metabolism and Applications
  • Lignin and Wood Chemistry
  • Phytochemistry and Bioactivity Studies

Among frequent publication venues are Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, South African Journal of Botany, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, DNA Research, and Scientific Reports.

  • Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
  • South African Journal of Botany
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • DNA Research
  • Scientific Reports

Ursula Kües has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Yazhong Xiao, Juanjuan Liu, Zemin Fang, Can Peng, and Gang Zhou.

  • Yazhong Xiao
  • Juanjuan Liu
  • Zemin Fang
  • Can Peng
  • Gang Zhou

Significant recent publications include the following works:

  • Coprinopsis cinerea Uses Laccase Lcc9 as a Defense Strategy To Eliminate Oxidative Stress during Fungal-Fungal Interactions (2021), Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Conserved white-rot enzymatic mechanism for wood decay in the Basidiomycota genus Pycnoporus (2020), DNA Research
  • Glucose counteracts wood-dependent induction of lignocellulolytic enzyme secretion in monokaryon and dikaryon submerged cultures of the white-rot basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus (2020), Scientific Reports
  • Mating-Type Locus Organization and Mating-Type Chromosome Differentiation in the Bipolar Edible Button Mushroom Agaricus bisporus (2021), Genes
  • Insights into evolution of multicellular fungi from the assembled chromosomes of the mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus) (2020), UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • The paleozoic origin of enzymatic lignin decomposition reconstructed from 31 fungal genomes

    Dimitrios Floudas;Manfred Binder;Robert Riley;Kerrie Barry

  • The genome of Laccaria bicolor provides insights into mycorrhizal symbiosis

    F. Martin;A. Aerts;D. Ahrén;A. Brun

  • Obligate biotrophy features unraveled by the genomic analysis of rust fungi

    Sébastien Duplessis;Christina A. Cuomo;Yao-Cheng Lin;Andrea Aerts

  • Genome, transcriptome, and secretome analysis of wood decay fungus Postia placenta supports unique mechanisms of lignocellulose conversion

    Diego Martinez;Diego Martinez;Jean Challacombe;Ingo Morgenstern;David Hibbett

  • The Plant Cell Wall–Decomposing Machinery Underlies the Functional Diversity of Forest Fungi

    Daniel C. Eastwood;Dimitrios Floudas;Manfred Binder;Andrzej Majcherczyk

  • Genome sequence of the model mushroom Schizophyllum commune

    Robin A Ohm;Jan F de Jong;Luis G Lugones;Andrea Aerts

  • Fruiting body production in Basidiomycetes.

    U. Kües;Y. Liu

  • Life History and Developmental Processes in the Basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus

    Ursula Kües

  • Phylogenetic comparison and classification of laccase and related multicopper oxidase protein sequences

    Patrik J. Hoegger;Sreedhar Kilaru;Timothy Y. James;Jason R. Thacker

  • Insights into evolution of multicellular fungi from the assembled chromosomes of the mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus)

    Jason E. Stajich;Jason E. Stajich;Jason E. Stajich;Sarah K. Wilke;Dag Ahrén;Chun Hang Au

  • Genome sequence of the button mushroom Agaricus bisporus reveals mechanisms governing adaptation to a humic-rich ecological niche

    Emmanuelle Morin;Annegret Kohler;Adam R. Baker;Marie Foulongne-Oriol

  • Comparative genomics of Ceriporiopsis subvermispora and Phanerochaete chrysosporium provide insight into selective ligninolysis

    Elena Fernandez-Fueyo;Francisco J. Ruiz-Dueñas;Patricia Ferreira;Dimitrios Floudas

  • Insight into trade‐off between wood decay and parasitism from the genome of a fungal forest pathogen

    Åke Olson;Andrea Aerts;Fred Asiegbu;Lassaad Belbahri

  • Replication of plasmids in gram-negative bacteria.

    U Kües;U Stahl

  • Biotechnology in the wood industry

    C. Mai;U. Kües;H. Militz

  • Fungal enzymes for environmental management

    Ursula Kües

  • The laccase multi-gene family in Coprinopsis cinerea has seventeen different members that divide into two distinct subfamilies.

    Sreedhar Kilaru;Patrik J. Hoegger;Ursula Kües

  • Evolution of novel wood decay mechanisms in Agaricales revealed by the genome sequences of Fistulina hepatica and Cylindrobasidium torrendii

    Dimitrios Floudas;Benjamin W. Held;Robert Riley;Laszlo G. Nagy;Laszlo G. Nagy

  • Evolution of the Bipolar Mating System of the Mushroom Coprinellus disseminatus From Its Tetrapolar Ancestors Involves Loss of Mating-Type-Specific Pheromone Receptor Function

    Timothy Y. James;Prayook Srivilai;Ursula Kües;Rytas Vilgalys

  • Fourier transform infrared microscopy and imaging: detection of fungi in wood.

    Annette Naumann;Monica Navarro-González;Sudhakar Peddireddi;Ursula Kües

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Markus Aebi
Markus Aebi ETH Zurich
Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine
Asaf Salamov
Asaf Salamov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pedro M. Coutinho
Pedro M. Coutinho Aix-Marseille University
Erika Lindquist
Erika Lindquist United States Department of Energy
Annegret Kohler
Annegret Kohler University of Lorraine
Ronald P. de Vries
Ronald P. de Vries Utrecht University
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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