The ability to genetically engineer plants is largely thanks to a microscopic helper: a bacterium called Agrobacterium ...

Fungal genomics is a scientific discipline that concerns the genome, encompassing the entire hereditary information, of fungi. Fungal genomics can, for example, be used to study fungal evolution ...

A parasitic fungus takes over the brains of flies and controls them for its own sinister ends. Here’s the science behind the ...

they need to go back to basics and start to untangle its arrestingly weird genome. “To be perfectly honest, we don't know what studying this weird fungus is going to get us… Fungi are amazing chemists ...

Fungi are fascinating lifeforms that defy conventional notions of animal intelligence. They don’t have brains, yet display clear signs of decision making and communication. But just how complex ...

Ants have been farming fungi since shortly after an asteroid triggered a mass extinction 66 million years ago, according to a ...

For the study, Lumba and her fellow researchers investigated why and how fungi respond to SLs. Eighty per cent of plants rely on this symbiotic relationship, and enhancing the interaction with ...

Fungi have a nasty reputation among humans. They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats ...

G. Kumaresan, Chairperson, School of Biological Sciences, delivered the welcome address and expressed the need for research on unexplored fungi at their genome level to know the full extent of usage ...

Climate change has the potential to make fungi even more hazardous to our health, according to research at Duke University. Asiya Gusa's climate change research focuses on how warming temperatures ...

Tinea is commonly known as ringworm, a fungal infection that can be found anywhere on the body. It gets its name because of the circular rash it causes. The name of the infection is determined by ...