News tagged with fungus
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Scientists seek blight-resistant spuds
Potatoes offering elevated levels of phytonutrients thought to promote health could add a new dimension to the consumer diet. But the journey from farm to fork can be a perilous one fraught with sundry microorganisms ready ...
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Mutant fungus threatens global wheat supply: scientists
Scientists have identified four new strains of a wheat-killing fungus that could endanger the global food supply, according to research presented Wednesday ahead of a conference in Russia.
May 26, 2010 |
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Unexpectedly high rate of multiple strains in fungal infection
New research shows that nearly 1 in 5 cases of infection with the potentially deadly fungus Cryptococcus neoformans are caused by not one but multiple strains of the pathogen. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and th ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 19, 2010 |
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The protein GRP78 opens the door to life-threatening fungal infection
Mucormycosis is a life-threatening infection most commonly caused by a species of fungus known as Rhizopus oryzae. It occurs predominantly in individuals with diabetes, in particular those with the potentially life-threatening ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 17, 2010 |
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Fatal fungus in frogs may be key to saving humans in the future
Scientists have been alarmed for years about a mysterious fungus that wipes out frogs around the globe -- even in wildlife sanctuaries like Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon national parks.
May 12, 2010 |
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Vancouver Island has one of the highest rates of Cryptococcus infection in the world
Cryptococcus disease is a rare but serious infection resulting from inhaling a toxic fungus often found in fir trees. Approximately 250 people have been infected with the disease in British Columbia since its emergence in 199 ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 04, 2010 |
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Shipping industry sends help as project in Panama tackles amphibian crisis
As a disease known as amphibian chytrid fungus continues to wipe out amphibian species worldwide, frogs in Panama are finding a safe haven in a seemingly unlikely spot—between the metal walls of shipping containers once used ...
Apr 23, 2010 |
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New strain of virulent airborne fungi, unique to Oregon, is set to spread
A newly discovered strain of an airborne fungus has caused several deaths in Oregon and seems poised to move into California and other adjacent areas, according to scientists at Duke University Medical Center.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Study finds treatment-resistant ringworm prevalent among children in metro elementary schools
Approximately 7 percent of elementary school children across the bi-state, Kansas City metropolitan area are infected with the fungus Trichophyton tonsurans (T. tonsurans), the leading cause of ringworm in the U.S., accordi ...
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Controlling Forests Doesn't Have To Be Toxic
(PhysOrg.com) -- Running electricity through a forest can be a dangerous business. To ensure that high-voltage power lines aren’t touched by branches or brought down by falling trees, they need to have a clear zone free of ...
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Tomato gene may fend banana against formidable fungus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins from the fungus Cladosporium fulvum, which causes leaf blight in tomato plants, are very similar to the proteins of the fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis, which causes the much-feared black Sigato ...
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Deadly fungus threatens 9 bat species in Ga., Ky., N.C., S.C. and Tenn., expert says
A leading bat expert with the USDA Forest Service's Southern Research Station today identified nine bat species in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee that she believes are most threatened by white-nose ...
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Forest epidemic is unprecedented phenomenon, still getting worse
The Swiss needle cast epidemic in Douglas-fir forests of the coastal Pacific Northwest is continuing to intensify, appears to be unprecedented over at least the past 100 years, and is probably linked to the ...
Apr 05, 2010 |
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Study: Grass, fungus combination affects ecology
The popular forage and turf grass called tall fescue covers a vast amount of land in the U.S. -- an area that's estimated to be larger than Virginia and Maryland combined -- and a new study by ecologists at Rice University ...
Mar 15, 2010 |
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El Nino and a pathogen killed Costa Rican toad, study finds
Scientists broadly agree that global warming may threaten the survival of many plant and animal species; but global warming did not kill the Monteverde golden toad, an often cited example of climate-triggered ...
Mar 01, 2010 |
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