But fungi have a range of vital roles, from helping plants draw water and nutrients from ... kingdom contains some of the most damaging crop pathogens. But fungi also recycle nutrients and play ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have cracked the code of plant-to-fungi communication in a new study published in ...

Forest pathogens, including fungi, bacteria, viruses, and even parasitic plants, are silent yet potent agents of destruction, often leading to widespread tree mortality, reduced forest productivity, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its first-ever list of fungal "priority pathogens," identifying 19 fungi that have emerged as significant public health threats because of their ...

However, in the 1990s, a new outbreak of banana wilt started attacking the Cavendish. This time it was because of a fungal pathogen called "Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc)" and specifically the ...

Under certain environmental conditions, damping off pathogens can cause root rot or crown rot in mature plants. Mushy tan spots on these seedlings are signs of infection by damping off fungi that can ...

Karius has developed a cell-free-DNA-based diagnostic test capable of identifying bacteria, mycobacteria, DNA viruses, fungi ... pathogens simultaneously within 1–2 days from a single blood draw.

A homozygous recessive (avr) pathogen genotype will infect a host for both dominant and recessive R genotypes. [citation needed] Physiological races are the multiple strains of the rust fungi that ...

The infection of just two individuals with Rhodosporidiobolus fluvialis could pose a significant threat, experts have warned, drawing ... fungus in immunocompromised mice and found that the ...