MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida on care of azalea, pineapple, lawns, sweet viburnum and mint ...

Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and trigger immune responses. Yet beneficial soil fungi routinely enter living root ...

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.

Some stringy fungi are tough negotiators, trading nutrients shrewdly with plants. An advance in tracking the nutrient phosphorus has revealed new details of ancient trading networks between fungi and ...

To achieve this, Mueller transplants bacteria from one plant’s roots to a new generation’s seeds. With a gift of 50 seeds from Thomas Juenger, also a professor of integrative biology at UT, Mueller ...

Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) represent a unique group of microorganisms that naturally infect and kill insects, while also forming beneficial associations with plants. Traditionally utilised as ...

In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian's renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. The scientists studied the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2020” report, released this week, was born of the collaborative effort of 200 scientists from 42 ...

Plant diseases rarely happen by accident. When problems show up in the garden, it is usually because the right conditions come together at the right time. Plant diseases can occur in any garden. In ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...