News tagged with fungal species
Linking microbial sex and virulence
Two opportunistic pathogens that were once thought to be very different have evolved some sexual reproduction and disease-causing habits that are not only similar but also suggest that in the microbial world sex and virulence ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Wild potato germplasm holds key to disease resistance
Wild potato germplasm that offers resistance to some major potato diseases has been identified by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Two new frog species discovered in Panama's fungal war zone
Trying to stay ahead of a deadly disease that has wiped out more than 100 species, scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute continue to discover new frog species in Panama: Pristimantis ed ...
May 26, 2010 |
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Essential oils to fight superbugs
Essential oils could be a cheap and effective alternative to antibiotics and potentially used to combat drug-resistant hospital superbugs, according to research presented at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Collection Provides Supply for Taxonomical Rescues
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Agricultural Research Service maintains some of the world's largest publicly accessible collections of microbes that are used to benefit agricultural sciences. But some smaller ARS collections ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Climate change turns up heat on mushrooms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that spring-fruiting fungi, including the morel and St George’s mushroom are fruiting nearly three weeks earlier than they did 50 years ago.
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields ...
Nov 06, 2009 |
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2010 species pledge set to fail: conservationists
The world's paramount authority on species loss has warned that pledges to roll back the threat to biodiversity by 2010 were running into the sand.
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Food security for leaf-cutting ants: Workers and their fungus garden reject endophyte invaders (w/Video)
New diseases directly affect human survival and food security, especially as population density climbs. Leaf-cutting ants, one of a few groups of social insects to cultivate crops, have harvested plant material ...
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Improved test can screen fungal pests for biofuel sources
(PhysOrg.com) -- Those pesky fungi that wreak havoc on such important crops as corn and wheat just might be the key to low-cost biofuel production, report Cornell researchers who have improved a method to ...
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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