Mycology

Credit: IRB Barcelona The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago before fungi and animals diverged evolutionarily. The fungal models currently…

Credit: Kenji Suetsugu Associate Professor SUETSUGU Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School of Science) presents evidence of the apparently unusual seed dispersal system by crickets and camel crickets in Apostasia nipponica…

Credit: Joyce Eberhart CORVALLIS, Ore. - As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology at Oregon State University, Dan Luoma attended a scientific meeting in 1981 on Orcas Island in Washington. Having recently…

Credit: André De Kesel A major comprehensive study on Herpomycetales and Laboulbeniales, two orders of unique ectoparasitic fungi associated with insects and other arthropods (class Laboulbeniomycetes) in Belgium and the…

Present in the human digestive tract, species of Candida can cause bloodstream infections in patients in hospital intensive care units; the analysis was done at the Complutensian University of Madrid's Gregorio Marañon Health Research…

UMass Amherst study finds more diverse soils did perform better, but drought stress is a limiting factorCredit: UMass Amherst/Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta AMHERST, Mass. - In what they believe is the first study of its kind, researchers…

Credit: Kasson Lab at West Virginia University Cicadas infected with the parasitic fungus Massospora unknowingly engage in trickery with their fellow insects, resulting in effective disease transmission, according to West…

Credit: Sarah J. Pethybridge, Sandeep Sharma, Zachariah Hansen, Julie R. Kikkert, Daniel L. Olmstead, and Linda E. Hanson A plant pathologist at Cornell University, Sarah J. Pethybridge supplies New York vegetable growers with the…

Findings pave the way for developing environmentally friendly fungicides ST. LOUIS, MO, July 20, 2020 - Fungal diseases cause substantial losses of agricultural harvests each year. The fungus Botrytis cinerea causing gray mold disease is a…

This is the first time Aspergillus latus has been found in a hospital; the species is more drug-resistant than its two parents and highly dangerous; the researchers will now investigate the role of fungi in COVID-19 Credit: Gustavo H.…

Move over, murder hornets. There's a new bee killer in town. CU Boulder researchers have found there is growing evidence that another "pandemic," as they call it, has been infecting bees around the world for the past two decades and is…

Whilst most organisms try to stop their DNA from mutating, scientists from the UK and China have discovered that a common fungus found on bread actively mutates its own DNA as a way of fighting virus-like infections. All organisms…

The white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies the mustard oil bomb in plants of the cabbage familyCredit: Anna Schroll Cabbage plants defend themselves against herbivores and pathogens by deploying a defensive…

Leading organic chemists synthesize fungal molecule capable of reactivating the self-destruct gene in aggressive cancer cellsCredit: Tokyo University of Science All human body cells have a certain lifespan, during which they perform their…

Credit: Angelina Tittmann, IGB When a lake is covered with green scums during a warm summer, cyanobacteria - often called blue-green algae - are usually involved. Mass development of such cyanobacteria is bad for water quality…

Credit: Derek Hennen While many of us use social media to be tickled silly by cat videos or wowed by delectable cakes, others use them to discover new species. Included in the latter group are researchers from the University of…

Credit: Vincent Ricigliano, ARS-USDA BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, May 11, 2020--A microscopic algae ("microalgae") could provide a complete and sustainably sourced supplemental diet to boost the robustness of managed honey bees,…

Through a meta-analysis of biotrophs, hemibiotrophs, and necrotophs, four scientists set out to find if the latent period of leaf fungal pathogens reflects their trophic types. The answer? Yes, there is a strong relationship between the…

Credit: Nick Sloff A common soil fungus might be enlisted as a powerful partner by corn producers to suppress pests and promote plant growth, according to Penn State researchers, who suggest promoting the fungus could be an especially…

Gypsy moth larvae love poplar leaves infected by fungiCredit: Franziska Eberl, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Black poplar leaves infected by fungi are especially susceptible to attack by gypsy moth caterpillars. A…