Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

"Mattresses are durable, bulky, and often end up in landfills," study co-author and chemical engineer The Hong Phong Nguyen ...

Almost all plants live in close symbiosis with so-called mycorrhizal fungi – an important symbiosis for absorbing essential ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...

Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and trigger immune responses. Yet beneficial soil fungi routinely enter living root ...

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.

Microbes play a crucial role in maintaining the levels of many nutrients in our environment, but warming could disrupt their function in certain cycles.

Scientists have grown chickpeas in simulated moon dirt—raising the possibility that future astronauts could one day harvest ...

Infectious keratitis remains a leading cause of corneal blindness and visual impairment worldwide, with bacterial, fungal, amoebic and viral pathogens presenting major diagnostic and therapeutic ...

Insects, animals and other life are often active beneath snowpack, and depend on a microhabitat called the subnivium to ...