There's a pandemic sweeping across the globe. No, not COVID, a different one. For decades, a brutal fungal infection has been decimating amphibians worldwide.
Plants & Animals
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A team of researchers from Australia, the U.S. and France reports evidence of a fungus regulating host gene expression of a plant using miRNA. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the ...
Thanks to a symbiotic fungus, many species of morning glories contain elements of powerful psychedelic drugs, according to a new Tulane University study published in the journal Communications Biology.
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2021
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A team of researchers from Columbia University, Ecovative Design and MIT has developed a living type of building block made from fungus feeding on woody waste products. They have published their results in the journal Nature ...
It's called Armillaria ostoyae, and it's a gnarly parasitic fungus with long black tentacles that spread out and attack vegetation with the ferocity of a movie monster.
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Dec 7, 2021
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The microbes that make us sick often have ways to evade our attacks against them. Perhaps chief among these strategies is a sticky, armor-like goo, called the biofilm matrix, that encases clusters of disease-causing organisms.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 12, 2021
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A combined team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences reports that a certain fungus uses chemicals to trick male flies into mating with infected dead females. ...
For lumber companies, the American chestnut was a nearly perfect tree—tall, straight, rot-resistant and easy to split. It also was prolific, sending up new shoots that grew quickly.
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2021
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A water-borne fungus that has led to the extinction of several species of amphibians that spend all or part of their life cycle in water is also threatening terrestrial amphibians. In Brazil, researchers supported by FAPESP ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 25, 2021
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An Oak Ridge National Laboratory team has successfully introduced a poplar gene into switchgrass, an important biofuel source, that allows switchgrass to interact with a beneficial fungus, ultimately boosting the grass's ...
Biotechnology
Oct 4, 2021
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