Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi that interact with plants are distantly related and don't share many genetic similarities. Comparing plant pathogenic fungi and plant symbiotic fungi, scientists at the ...
Mutualist-pathogen co-colonisation modulates phosphoinositide signatures at host intracellular interfaces: Nicotiana benthamiana plants expressing biosensors for PI4P and PI(4,5)P2. PI(4,5)P2 was ...
Fungal infections pose a hidden threat to garden health, often progressing unnoticed until plants show visible damage. These infections thrive in humid, poorly drained, or overcrowded environments, ...
Professor Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, UC Davis Department of Plant Biology, has discovered a compound that could fight fungal diseases in plants including grapes and rice. (Sasha Bakhter/UC Davis ...
Fungal infections destroy a significant amount of crops worldwide. Scientists have warned that the crop losses due to fungal infections cause hundreds of thousands of people to miss out on calories ...
For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard ...
Fungi can cause a range of infections and problems for humans. However, despite the fact that we encounter and inhale fungal spores nearly every time we step outside, we don’t often end up with a ...
Scientists have created plants whose cells and tissues 'blush' with beetroot pigments when they are colonized by fungi that help them take up nutrients from the soil. This is the first time this vital ...
Got spots? After this rainy spring we are seeing a lot of leaf spot fungi infections on garden plants; practically speaking, there isn’t much we can do about them. Not talking beauty marks, like the ...