Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi that interact with plants are distantly related and don't share many genetic similarities. Comparing plant pathogenic fungi and plant symbiotic fungi, scientists at the ...

How do plants and fungi communicate with each other? This is what a recent study published in Molecular Cell hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated the “language” ...

University of Minnesota researchers at the College of Biological Sciences Kennedy Lab detail the role dead fungi play in balancing carbon within the soil. The Kennedy Lab studies fungi both dead and ...

Industrial farming practices often deplete the soil of important nutrients and minerals, leaving farmers to rely on artificial fertilizers to support plant growth. In fact, fertilizer use has more ...

In Lena Mueller’s lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, dead plants are OK. “Don’t worry, it’s on purpose,” said Kelly Semtner, Mueller’s high school intern, gesturing at a row of wilted ...

The number of plant species that extract organic nutrients from fungi could be much higher than previously assumed. This was discovered by researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the ...

Microfluidic technology has become increasingly important in many scientific fields, such as regenerative medicine, ...

Rot development during fruit storage is a problem. Now, metabarcoding may become a tool for detecting fungi that can cause ...

Researchers have shed new light on the ancient relationship between moss and fungi. They discovered that intricate moss-fungi interactions often depended on a third variable -- the presence of ...

Even if you don't know what 3D microfluidic networks are, that doesn't change the fact that they have some very valuable possible uses. Scientists have now devised a much easier method of making the ...

18 November 2020, Saxony, Torfhaus: A fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) stands in the Dübener Heide. Beautiful to look at but poisonous - the mushroom belongs to the family of bead fungus relatives. Photo ...

KANSAS CITY — The future of meat substitutes may not involve plants. While food manufacturers race to bring new soy, wheat and pea-based products to market, a handful of start-ups have been hard at ...