Historic Outbreaks of Coffee Wilt Disease Linked to Gene Transfer from Another Fungus Dec. 5, 2024 — The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and their partners reveal their pick of the top 10 plants and fungi named new to science in 2024. An analysis of fungi collected from peat bogs has ...

The Second Cycle, or middle period of our lives, brings about the slow emergence of our individual and creative talents. The initial part of this cycle - the early and mid 30s - represents a struggle ...

Mushrooms, sometimes called the “elixir of life,” have a long history of beauty and culinary excellence as well as medical ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

In the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this parasitic fungus is prized for its purported medicinal effects.

Habitats, life-cycles and the interactions between various species and their environments are covered in this series of hands-on activity ideas and supporting printable resources. Why not print and ...

I’m watching the United States fall to fascism in real time and yet the alarm bell that I, and so many others, are ringing is ...

A graphic showing bacteria are injected into a fungus with an extremely fine tip. Sean Kilian Why It Matters Endosymbiosis is the foundation of complex, multicellular life as we know it ...