Summary The plant pathogenic fungus F usarium fujikuroi is the causal agent of bakanae disease on rice due to its ability to produce gibberellins. Besides these phytohormones, F . fujikuroi is able to produce several other secondary metabolites ( SMs ). Although much progress has been made in the field of secondary metabolism, the transcriptional regulation of SM biosynthesis is complex and still incompletely understood. Envir...