A culture collection of more than 500 fungal strains from seawater, sediments and seaweeds is helping scientists better ...

Bacterial and fungal spores float out in the stratosphere, yet they are capable of falling back to Earth where they can ...

Most plants form beneficial relationships with belowground mycorrhizal fungi that help them access soil nutrients in exchange ...

The innovation centers on a fungus called Metarhizium pingshaense, long known for its ability to kill insects. But scientists ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Nevertheless, there is little information about the role of VOCs derived from soilborne pathogenic fungi and beneficial fungi, particularly mycorrhizae, in influencing plant performance. In this ...

Longan (Dimocarpus longan) is related to lychee. While the peel of lychee is pinkish-red and bumpy, that of the longan is ...

Soil amelioration using beneficial microorganisms, particularly arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), is essential and pragmatic. Glomalin, a type of glycoprotein produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues ...

Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Histo-aspartic protease (HAP) from Plasmodium falciparum is a promising target for the development of novel ...

Longer hospital stays and weakened immune systems is driving the spread of a killer fungus that poses a serious threat to humanity, experts have warned.

Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Low-Carbon Biosynthesis, Westlake Center of Synthetic Biology and Integrated Bioengineering, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou ...