Table 2.

Endogenous NO function in fungi.

Category	Fungus	Function	Reference
Growth and development	Aspergillus nidulans	Reduce conidiation and induce the formation of cleistothecia	[55]
		Light regulation of conidiation	[88]
	Blastocladiella emersonii	Controlling zoospore biogenesis	[40]
	Candida albicans	Growth promotion and pathogenesis by extracellular vesicles	[97]
	Colletotrichum coccodes	Regulation of spore germination	[49]
	Coniothyrium minitans	Nitric-oxide-mediated conidiation	[41,50]
	Neurospora crassa	Light-induced conidiation and carotenogenesis	[44,48]
		Regulate mycelial development and conidia formation	[95]
		Impacting the growth and development of hyphae (vegetative growth)	[96]
	Phycomyces blakesleeanus	Light-induced development of sporangiophores	[38]
	Physarum polycephalum	Sporulation	[98]
	Pleurotus ostreatus	Primordia formation	[94]
	Puccinia striiformis f.sp. tritici	Induce spore germination	[99]
Response to stresses	Aspergillus fumigatus	Effects of antifungal agent (farnesol) on germination	[100]
	Ganoderma lucidum	Heat-stress-induced ganoderic acid levels	[101]
	Lentinula edodes and Grifola frondosa	Tolerance to superoptimal pH and in nitrogen limitation	[102]
	Pleurotus eryngii var. tuoliensis	Heat-stress-induced oxidative damage	[53]
		Heat-stress-induced trehalose accumulation	[103]
	Rhizophagus irregularis	Enhanced host plant tolerance to low temperature stress by regulating proline accumulation in plant	[47]
	Saccharomyces cerevisiae	Cytoprotective effect from heat shock or high hydrostatic pressure	[104]
		Hypoxia signaling	[61,105]
		H2O2-induced apoptosis	[39]
	Shiraia sp. Slf14(w)	Heat-stress-enhanced perylenequinone biosynthesis	[62]
	Trichophyton rubrum	Reduction in fungal viability by 420 nm intense pulsed light	[43]
Metabolism	Aspergillus nidulans	Mycotoxin production	[106]
	Ganoderma lucidum	Methyl-jasmonate-induced ganoderic acid biosynthesis	[59]
	Inonotus obliquus	Biosynthesis of antioxidant polyphenols, accumulation of antioxidant phenolic constituents	[52]
	Inonotus obliquus and Phellinus morii	Increase in level of styrylpyrone polyphenols in fungal interspecific interaction	[42]
	Neurospora crassa	Cellulolytic enzyme production	[107]
		Carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism	[96]
	Preussia sp. BSL-10	Improve rice plant growth and related gene expression	[60]
	Shiraia sp. S9	Hypocrellin A production	[108,109]
	Shiraia sp. Slf14(w)	Production of secondary metabolite perylenequinone	[46,62]
Virulence and pathogenicity	Aspergillus nidulans	Mycotoxin production	[106]
	Blumeria graminis	Influences formation of the appressorium infection structure	[51]
	Botrytis cinerea	Saprophytic growth and plant infection	[110]
	Botrytis elliptica	Induction of programmed cell death in lily	[111]
	Fusarium graminearum	Host recognition and virulence	[57]
	Magnaporthe oryzae	Drives plant infection (delays germling development and reduces disease lesion numbers)	[77]
		Conidial germination and appressorium formation (infectious morphogenesis)	[112]