Researchers sequenced a fungal endophyte of rubber trees and compared its genome to 36 other fungi, focusing on genes that are crucial to host-fungus interactions.
Biotechnology
Apr 5, 2016
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Scientists at the University of Salford are to artificially evolve a bacterium linked to the spread of deadly sleeping sickness, African Trypanosomiasis.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 19, 2016
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Scientists at Aarhus University have discovered that fungi associated with plant roots may improve growth and yield of drought-stressed wheat.
Biotechnology
Dec 17, 2015
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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich biologists have studied the evolutionary history of symbioses between tropical ants and their plant hosts. The results show that such relationships are not fixed, and that initial symbionts ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2015
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The mechanical force that a single fungal cell or bacterial colony exerts on a plant cell may seem vanishingly small, but it plays a heavy role in setting up some of the most fundamental symbiotic relationships in biology. ...
Biotechnology
Aug 27, 2014
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One of the most diverse families in the ocean today—marine bivalve mollusks known as Lucinidae (or lucinids)—originated more than 400 million years ago in the Silurian period, with adaptations and life habits like those ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2014
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A report in Biology Letters shows that the drool of herbivores might help defeat the toxic fungal defences of the plants they graze on.
Biotechnology
Jul 24, 2014
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A new study suggests that symbiotic relationships between trees and the mycorrhyzae that grow in their roots may not be as mutually beneficial as previously thought.
Ecology
May 22, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Balancing budgets isn't just a matter for governments, as scientists have observed in a study of the way light is used in the symbiotic relationship between animal and plant that we know as coral.
Plants & Animals
Jan 31, 2014
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A Mediterranean legume has the potential to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions when fed to livestock.
Environment
Sep 2, 2013
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