Kelp for corn? Illinois scientists demystify natural products for crops
Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Corn growers can choose from a wide array of products to make the ...
Tag: Mycology
How plants compensate symbiotic microbes
Credit: Courtesy of the Peay Lab/Brian Steidinger "Equal pay for equal work," a motto touted by many people, turns out ...
New broadly applicable tool provides insight into fungicide resistance
Credit: Jingyu Peng, Hyunkyu Sang, Tyre J. Proffer, Jacqueline Gleason, Cory A. Outwater, Geunhwa Jung, and George W. Sundin Succinate ...
The origins of farming insects
Ambrosia fungi cultivated by beetles for more than 100 million yearsCredit: Bjarte Jordal, University of Bergen (Norway) A beetle bores ...
Mushroom growing out of fossilized ant reveals new genus and species of fungal parasite
Credit: George Poinar Jr., OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a ...
A new disease called halo blight threatens Michigan hop production
Credit: Douglas S. Higgins, Ross J. Hatlen, Jan M. Byrne, Monique L. Sakalidis, Timothy D. Miles, and Mary K. Hausbeck ...
70-year-old coffee-killing fungus brought back to life to fight the disease
Credit: CABI Researchers have re-animated specimens of a fungus that causes coffee wilt to discover how the disease evolved and ...
Fungus fights mites that harm honey bees
New fungus strain could provide a chemical-free method to help honey beesCredit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash. -- A new ...
Study shows how fungi and bacteria can activate genes associated with head and neck cancer
A research group at São Paulo State University (UNESP) analyzed how Candida albicans fungi and Staphylococcus aureus bacteria influence gene ...
Immune function of small chloroplasts in the epidermal cells of plants
Credit: HIROKI IRIEDA, SHINSHU UNIVERSITY It is said that 10 to 15% of the world's agricultural production loss is caused ...
Kelp, maggots and mycoprotein among future foods that must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition
Credit: Image courtesy of Vaxa, Iceland. Radical changes to the food system are needed to safeguard our food supply and ...
Polypharmakos and CABI to develop new antimicrobial products from CABI Culture Collection
Polypharmakos Limited, a spin-out company from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and University of Cambridge, and international not-for-profit organisation CABI ...
Lichens slow to return after wildfire
Frequent fire narrows recovery window for lichens in Chaparral shrublandsCredit: Jesse Miller Lichen communities may take decades -- and in ...
Winning gene combination takes all
Credit: Image supplied by researchers in the Osbourn laboratory at the John Innes Centre Researchers have traced the remaining last ...