Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these ...

Some of these organisms, mostly bacteria or fungi, make the plants sick, while others have no harmful effect on the plants or are even beneficial. Previous studies of endophytic fungi living ...

Imagine being able to generate and customize diagrams, like pie charts, with just a few simple prompts—no extra software, no steep learning curve. This new feature, still in its beta phase ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — The discovery of a powerful 'weapon' used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could offer new strategies to ...

It consists of three subsections stigma, stile and ovary as shown in the following diagram of longitudinal section of flower. The male reproductive part of the flower is known as stamen.

(Credit: Syrena Whitner, University of Hawai'i) A variety of colorful marine fungi grown in petri dishes in Anthony Amend's lab. Hawaii is home to some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes.

While these fungi were described in the scientific literature as early as the mid-1800s, the extent and precision of the behavioral control that they exert on their unfortunate insect hosts—and the ...

Two of the most common foot fungi infections are tinea pedis and onychomycosis. Tinea pedis is also known as athlete’s foot or foot ringworm, and it can affect the skin on the feet, causing ...