The microbiome of Da Vinci’s drawings
The microbial composition of art pieces can reveal interesting facts about their past and the journey they madeCredit: The authors ...
Tag: Mycology
Model for acid-tolerant yeast helps guide industrial organic acid production
Credit: Hoang Dinh and Patrick Suthers, Penn State Microbes and other microscopic organisms could serve as sustainable "factories" to create ...
Invisible fungi revealed by their genetic material
Credit: Veera Tuovinen How can new life forms that we cannot see be discovered? Using a novel method based on ...
Fungal species naturally suppresses cyst nematodes responsible for major sugar beet losses
Credit: James Borneman The plant pathogenic nematode Heterodera schachtii infects more than 200 different plants, including sugar beets, and causes ...
Cucurbit downy mildew pathogen has two genetically distinct host-adapted clades
Credit: E. C. Wallace, K. N. D'Arcangelo, and L. M. Quesada-Ocampo Cucurbit downy mildew is a devastating disease for the ...
Impact of arbuscular mycorrhizal species on heterodera glycines
Credit: M. L. Pawlowski and G. L. Hartman Introduced to the United States over 60 years ago, soybean cyst nematode ...
Those funky cheese smells allow microbes to ‘talk’ to and feed each other
Researchers discover that bacteria that ripen cheese respond to the volatile gases produced by cheese fungiCredit: Adam Detour MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. ...
Study finds fungal disease of snakes in 19 states, Puerto Rico
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In a collaborative effort between scientists and personnel on military bases ...
210 scientists highlight state of plants and fungi in Plants, People, Planet special issue
The landmark special issue is a collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, KewCredit: Plants, People, Planet 210 scientists from around ...
Microbiome-based technologies drive multibillion-dollar market
New research field promises to transform food production and treatment of diseases; a global panel of experts unified concepts to ...
Fungal compound inhibits important group of proteins
Zebrafish embryos elucidate unknown effect for cercosporamideCredit: Jelmer Hoeksma, copyright Hubrecht Institute Researchers in the group of Jeroen den Hertog, ...
Penicillium camemberti: a history of domestication on cheese
Credit: © Tatiana Giraud, CNRS researcher at the Ecology, Systematics and Evolution Laboratory (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay/AgroParisTech), CNRS Silver Medal 2015 The ...
Genome of Alexander Fleming’s original penicillin-producing mould sequenced
Credit: CABI Researchers have sequenced the genome of Alexander Fleming's penicillin mould for the first time and compared it to ...
Scientists identify new species of crystal-encrusted truffle, thanks to bonobos
Credit: Alexander Georgiev GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Mushroom-munching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have introduced scientists to a ...