A major new study reveals that soil fungi could play a significant role in the ability of forests to adapt to environmental change. Nature is rife with symbiotic relationships, some of which take ...

Beneficial soil fungi that help plants grow could become easier for farmers to use, based on research by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists who are studying these valuable organisms.

ST. GEORGE, Utah (KTVX) — People who are suffering from pneumonia-like symptoms lately (but don’t have pneumonia) may have ingested fungal spores that went airborne after dirt around you was disturbed ...

Liz Koziol works with the world’s largest collection of a category of soil fungus that benefits many plant species, the International Collection of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. She and ...

There’s no shortage of products designed to grow beneficial fungi that will help your crops or garden. Whether they actually do that, though, is a different matter. A burgeoning billion-dollar ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Tomato plants are especially vulnerable to foliar diseases that can kill them or impact yield. These problems require a number of pesticides in conventional crops and make ...

The new trend in cancer research is to view a tumor’s malignancy not as solely determined by the tumor’s damaged genome. That view may be somewhat intuitive and has been dominant for decades, but ...

Over many decades, we have come to count on colorful, sturdy vinca (Catharanthus roseus) as the workhorse of our summer gardens. With its pretty pink, white and purple blooms clustered en masse on a ...