Zombie horror series The Last of Us might feel a little more real after you learn about a fungus that infects cave spiders ...

“If we find out exactly how Mortierella works against nematodes, we could perhaps use this fungus specifically as a biological control agent against plant pathogens,” says Büttner, who has ...

Fungus gnats are small black flies, also known as sciarid flies, mushroom flies and mycetophilids. They are a very common pest, especially when plants are grown in pots of soil-free compost. In fact, ...

Although the term symbiosis was first coined in the ... describe a tripartite association between a virus, a fungus and a plant that confers thermal tolerance on both the fungus and the plant.

Honey fungus is the most serious fungal disease affecting garden trees and shrubs in this country. With young trees and shrubs, death can be very sudden, while older trees may take many years to die.

“And so we seem to have cooked out the fungal pathogens.” Without fungi to aid in decomposition, all life in the forest would soon be buried under a mountain of dead plant matter. “[Fungi ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in ... No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 ...