Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and trigger immune responses. Yet beneficial soil fungi routinely enter living root ...

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.

A new study found that chickpeas grown in lunar regolith simulant were able to survive when paired with mycorrhizal fungi and vermicompost. The post Can chickpeas grow on the Moon? Fungi may hold the ...

Almost all plants live in close symbiosis with so-called mycorrhizal fungi—an important symbiosis for absorbing essential ...

Some stringy fungi are tough negotiators, trading nutrients shrewdly with plants. An advance in tracking the nutrient phosphorus has revealed new details of ancient trading networks between fungi and ...

Long-term ecosystem warming changes not only plants but the fungi in the soil below, according to a new study including ...

In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian's renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. The scientists studied the ...

Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) represent a unique group of microorganisms that naturally infect and kill insects, while also forming beneficial associations with plants. Traditionally utilised as ...

Katie Field receives funding from the European Research Council, the Biotechnology and Biological Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council. Tom Parker receives funding from The ...

Mold and fungus do not wait on the sidelines. They move fast, spread faster, and attack when plants sit at their most ...

Maybe it’s all coincidence. Maybe it’s the mild and damp air at this time of year. Maybe it’s just part of the newfound interest in the subject of mycology. But whatever the reason, recently there ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. In a study published at the end of 2018, scientists used vast amounts of ...