A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered the specific gene that controls an important symbiotic relationship between plants and so... Read more
Binghamton University researchers have been working on a self-healing concrete that uses a specific type of fungi as a healing agent. America’s crumbling infrastructure has been a topic of o... Read more
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the University of York, has discovered a set of enzymes found in fungi that are capable of breaking down one of the main compo... Read more
Fungi is a potential goldmine for the production of pharmaceuticals. This is shown by Chalmers researchers, who have developed a method for finding new antibiotics from nature’s own resource... Read more
University of Guelph plant scientists have shown for the first time how an ancient crop teams up with a beneficial microbe to protect against a devastating fungal infection, a discovery that... Read more
Although rechargeable batteries in smartphones, cars and tablets can be charged again and again, they don’t last forever. Old batteries often wind up in landfills or incinerators, pote... Read more
Microbiologists unravel relationship among plants, mycorrhizal fungi An ancient, mutually beneficial relationship between plants and fungi could make agriculture more sustainable by reducing... Read more
Fungi have fantastic capabilities Fungi, with the exception of shitake and certain other mushrooms, tend to be something we associate with moldy bread or dank-smelling mildew. But they reall... Read more
