Threats to global food security from emerging fungal crop pathogens
Amongst the world's most challenging problems is the need to feed an ever-growing global population sustainably.
Amongst the world's most challenging problems is the need to feed an ever-growing global population sustainably.
Plants & Animals
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Pathogenic fungi pose a huge and growing threat to global food security.
Biotechnology
Mar 30, 2020
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Diseases often pile on, coinfecting people, animals and other organisms that are already fighting an infection. In one of the first studies of its kind, bioscientists from Rice University and the University of Michigan have ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 5, 2020
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Sanitary care in ants to fight disease is known to improve the wellbeing of the colony, yet it has been unclear how social disease defense interferes with pathogen competition inside the individual host body. In their recent ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2020
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Tricking fungi into thinking they're starving could be the key to slowing down our evolutionary arms race with fungal pathogens, as hungry fungi don't want to have sex.
Ecology
Oct 28, 2019
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Scientists have created a new mobile surveillance technique to rapidly diagnose one of agriculture's oldest enemies—wheat rusts.
Plants & Animals
Aug 13, 2019
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A fungicide commonly used by the agricultural industry to protect grains, fruit and vegetables from mold damage seems to kill fungi by a previously uncharacterized mechanism that delivers a metabolic shock to cells, new research ...
Biotechnology
Mar 25, 2019
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Fungal diseases collectively termed "powdery mildew" afflict a broad range of plant species, including agriculturally relevant cereals such as barley, and result in significant reductions in crop yield. Fungi that cause powdery ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2019
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When a pathogen enters their colony, ants change their behavior to avoid the outbreak of disease. In this way, they protect the queen, brood and young workers from becoming ill. These results, from a study carried out in ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 22, 2018
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A chemical compound found in common herbicides could help fight hospital-acquired human fungal pathogenic infections, which claim an estimated two million lives per year.
Biochemistry
Oct 4, 2018
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