Researchers working with dried fungal specimens stored at Australia’s National Herbarium of Victoria have identified two new species of fungi by applying DNA sequencing to long-held collections. The ...

“Fennel can be lovely with fern-like foliage, but it’s a plant you’ll want to distance from your roses,” says Kaiser. Fennel and roses compete for soil, nutrients, and water because of their deep ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even coral skeletons.

A newly discovered species of spider in the Ecuadorean Amazon mimics a pathogen, known as a zombie fungus, to protect itself.

A newly identified disease affecting corn and sorghum can closely resemble iron deficiency, potentially leading farmers to apply costly nutrient treatments that do not address the underlying problem.

An insidious disease has eliminated dozens of the world’s frog species. Scientists fear a similar plague could be coming for ...

Transforming your indoor garden into a resilient ecosystem starts with understanding ‘The Green Guard.’ The efficient use of ...

Antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs are designed to affect the human brain. But after they enter the water system in ...

UK scientists awarded £1m to develop smart gel using plasma tech, offering new hope for brain cancer, skin disease and fungal ...

It may sound and look like alphabet soup when farmers discuss the latest soybean diseases in their fields: BSR, SDS, and now RCR. Dr. Horacio Lopez-Nicora, OSU Extension Soybean Pathologist and ...

The damage that looks like leaf chewing from an insect pest is actually due to certain fungi or bacteria infecting the leaf.

Due to globalization, an aquatic fungus threatens to decimate an increasing number of amphibian species across the world.