The oldest disease-causing fungus ever found has been discovered within a museum's fossil collections. Estimated to be 407 million years old, the newfound fungal plant pathogen, named Potteromyces ...
Fungi are heterotrophic, meaning that they cannot make their own food. They must therefore obtain energy from other sources. In order to do this, fungi can be saprobic, parasitic or mutualistic.
Root parasitic plants cause as much as US$10 billion ... act as a signal to induce symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, a microorganism that helps uptake nutrients such as phosphorus ...
Scientists are seeing signs of resistance to the infections that have been wiping out the world’s amphibian populations—and they're developing methods to fight the pathogen ...
The fungus then grows and begins to hijack the mind of its host until it loses control and is compelled to climb to higher ground. The parasitic fungus devours its victim from the inside ...
IT is somewhat surprising that a book on a subject of such importance alike to the entomologist and fungologist has not been forthcoming long ago. It is true that a Memoir on the subject was ...
Scientists from the University of Nottingham’s School of Pharmacy have been studying how a parasitic fungus that grows on caterpillars could work as a potential treatment for a range of diseases ...
Cordycepin, a chemical produced by a parasitic fungus that infects the animals, interacts with genes to interrupt cell growth signals. Scientists from the University of Nottingham's School of ...