As scientists seek to make crops resilient against disease and the effects of climate change, they are turning to what may seem like an unlikely champion: fungi. Specifically, they are studying ...

Findings more than a decade in the making reveal a rich diversity of beneficial fungi living in boreal forest trees, with implications for the health of forests. Spruce, pine, fir and other trees ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an alliance that could lead to more resilient forests. Endophytes—tiny ...

Organisms discovered by Yale undergraduates growing within fungi in the Amazon Rainforest can degrade polyurethane, a findings that may lead to innovative ways to reduce waste in the world’s landfills ...

New findings shed light on the mechanisms behind a natural purification process and identify the key microbial “teammates” ...

Rowena Hill is a Natural Environment Research Council funded PhD student with the London NERC DTP. Ester Gaya works for RBG Kew and receives funding from Evolution and Education Trust and Pragnell ...

Elizabeth Bent receives funding from the Ontario Ministry of Food and Agriculture, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. She consults to her own company, Renaissance ...

Many of the seeds stored at the Millennium Seed Bank are home to microscopic fungi, which have been hiding undetected for years. This was the moment of truth. We'd spent countless hours meticulously ...

Stories of mass poisoning incidents of livestock due to toxic grasses made headlines especially overseas. Animal ecologists have studied whether this hazard is also lurking on German pastures. Stories ...