The stench of a rare corpse flower make us retch. But you’re not the target – the plant wants to lure carrion beetles and ...

Emerging infectious diseases in animals that are caused by fungi that you may have heard or read about include white-nose ...

Finally, the fungus causes the ant to climb up a plant and lock onto a leaf or a stem with its jaws ... both of which can invade people’s lungs and cause serious pneumonia-like symptoms. Cryptococcus ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have cracked the code of plant-to-fungi communication. Using baker’s yeast, the researchers discovered that the plant hormone strigolactone (SL) activates ...

Your garden plants are going to sleep for the winter. Unfortunately, so are the pathogens that cause diseases that attack them. Plant pathogens include fungi, bacteria, viruses and nematodes. Bacteria ...

The UK and Chile are proposing at the UN’s biodiversity conference COP16 in Colombia this week that fungi should receive a equal protection status to animals and plants. In the "Fungal ...

Finally, the fungus causes the ant to climb up a plant and lock onto a leaf or a ... people’s lungs and cause serious pneumonia-like symptoms. Cryptococcus neoformans can spread outside the ...