Many fungi lead triple lives—acting as deadly insect pathogens, decomposers in the soil, and helpful partners living inside ...
Most plants form beneficial relationships with belowground mycorrhizal fungi that help them access soil nutrients in exchange for sugars. These plant-fungal relationships are the most common type of ...
Liz Koziol works with the world’s largest collection of a category of soil fungus that benefits many plant species, the International Collection of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. She and ...
The unique blend of fungi and bacteria in a region's soil may be the strongest factor explaining its rates of childhood allergic disease, with certain assemblages of soil critters appearing linked ...
Within weeks of a wildfire, an orange crust coats deadwood and the charred forest floor, creating an otherworldly landscape ...
First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life Our planet’s soils contain enough of the subterranean fungi that sustain plant life and ...
In a recent study, researchers investigated the interactions between Pyricularia oryzae, the rice blast fungus, and the beneficial soil bacterium Streptomyces griseus. They found that P. oryzae ...