How fungi influence global plant colonisation
International research team with Göttingen participation analyses impact on biodiversityCredit: Holger Kreft The symbiosis of plants and fungi has a ...
Tag: Mycology
Life-changing magic of tidying up: Complex structures’ organization studied in slime mold
How cells organize into complex structures studied in slime moldCredit: Fujimori et al. 2019, PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1815063116 Researchers in Japan ...
Genetic blueprint for extraordinary wood-munching fungus
A relatively unknown fungus, accidentally found growing on an Acacia tree in the Northern Cape, has emerged as a voracious ...
Genetics Society of America awards 2019 Edward Novitski Prize to Joseph Heitman
Prize recognizes extraordinary creativity and ingenuity in genetics researchCredit: Duke University Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD of Duke University is the ...
New family of fungi threatens a UNESCO-listed 8-century-old cathedral in Portugal
Credit: João Trovão To be listed as UNESCO World Heritage requires special care and protection of valuable cultural monuments and ...
How Candida albicans exploits lack of oxygen to cause disease
Credit: The image was acquired at the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) journal MBio, a publication of the ...
Scientists identify two new species of fungi in retreating Arctic glacier
Credit: NIPR Two new species of fungi have made an appearance in a rapidly melting glacier on Ellesmere Island in ...
UTSA microbiologist Floyd Wormley elected AAAS Fellow
Credit: UTSA (San Antonio, Jan. 09, 2019) -- Floyd L. Wormley Jr., the Microsoft President's Endowed Professor in the UTSA ...
Is habitat restoration actually killing plants in the California wildlands?
Nursery-grown plants can harbor fungicide-resistant strains of disease-causing pathogensCredit: Matteo Garbelotto, U.C. Berkeley photo In 2014, plant biologists with the ...
BioOne Complete launches on new platform powered by nonprofit partnership
Washington, DC -- BioOne (about.bioone.org), the nonprofit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, ...
Producers of white colonies on kimchi surface, mistaken as molds, have been identified
Analyses of microbial community structures and whole genome sequencing were performed to the white colony-forming yeasts on kimchi surfaceCredit: Please ...
Register for the JGI 14th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting
The DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) 14th Annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting takes place April 2-5, 2019 at ...
People and plants: Working together for the planet
Plants, People, Planet, a new cross-disciplinary Open Access journal, launches todayCredit: Plants, People, Planet / Tetsuo Wada / Aflo. We ...