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 years A beetle bores a tree trunk to build a ...
Mushroom growing out of fossilized ant reveals new genus and species of fungal parasite
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a fungus parasitizing an ant, and ...
A new disease called halo blight threatens Michigan hop production
If you're a beer drinker, you've noticed that hoppy beers have become increasingly popular. Most of the nation's hops come ...
70-year-old coffee-killing fungus brought back to life to fight the disease
Researchers have re-animated specimens of a fungus that causes coffee wilt to discover how the disease evolved and how its ...
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 ...
A milestone in muscular dystrophy therapy
Credit: Spuler Lab, ECRC Muscle stem cells enable our muscle to build up and regenerate over a lifetime through exercise. ...
Rutgers Professor Joan Bennett elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Plant biologist studies the genetics and physiology of thread-like fungiCredit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University Joan W. Bennett, a Distinguished Professor of ...
WVU receives NSF grant to transition large fungal collection to University of Kansas
Credit: Brian Persinger/WVU For more than 30 years, the world's largest collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - the "good" kind ...
Unlocking Australia’s biodiversity, one dataset at a time
Credit: CSIRO Australia's unique and highly endemic flora and fauna are threatened by rapid losses in biodiversity and ecosystem health, ...
Host, management, or microbial traits: Which is dominant in plant microbiome assemblage?
Credit: Frances Trail We've all heard the news stories of how what you eat can affect your microbiome. Changing your ...
Cultivating Matsutake, valuable edible fungi
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Akiyoshi Yamada et al., under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature Costing ...
