Mycorrhizal fungi are the supply chains of the soil. With filaments thinner than hair, they shuttle vital nutrients to plants and tree roots. In return, the fungi receive carbon to grow their ...

You’ve heard of the microbiome, the community of bacteria, viruses, archaea parasites, and fungi that live in our bodies. But that last member of the group, fungi, get a lot less attention than the ...

Some of these organisms, mostly bacteria or fungi, make the plants sick, while others have no harmful effect on the plants or are even beneficial. Previous studies of endophytic fungi living ...

Like humans, many fungi rely on plants as a food source. This impacts the yield of food crops. It's estimated farmers lose between 10 to 23% of their crops to fungal disease every year. The global ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — The discovery of a powerful 'weapon' used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could ... Feb. 26, 2025 ...

But scientists at the University of Hawaii have found a possible solution - marine fungi. Researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) in Mānoa believe it is a “promising and largely untapped ...

Fungal genetics is the study of the mechanisms of heritable information in fungi. Yeasts and filamentous fungi are extensively used as model organisms for eukaryotic genetic research, including ...

Mucormycosis is a rare fungal infection. Most people are exposed to the fungi behind the disease regularly, but in certain individuals, the microbes can end up being deadly.

Plant pathogenic fungi can be classified as biotrophic, necrotrophic or hemibiotrophic, depending on their host interaction for their nutrition. Necrotrophic fungi kill host plant cells and use the ...