One fungus, two species, millions of dead bats: A study published in the journal Nature has analyzed 5,000 samples of a fungus that is responsible for the largest recorded pathogen-caused mortality in ...

Higher environmental temperatures may trigger mutations in fungi that lead to increased infectivity, more aggressive growth or resistance to multiple anti-fungal medications. Microbiologist examining ...

This study is led by Dr. Wen-Bing Yin and Dr. Jie Fan from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The genus Trichoderma is widely recognized for its critical role in sustainable ...

There are many reasons to fear a new fungal pathogen—from the paucity of antifungal drug options to lack of vaccines and diagnostic difficulties in humans, to the potential for catastrophic crop and ...

Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi that interact with plants are distantly related and don't share many genetic similarities. Comparing plant pathogenic fungi and plant symbiotic fungi, scientists at the ...

Fungi can keep us healthy or cause disease. As climate change drives fungi to adapt, their impact on our health is changing. Learn about the increasing risk of fungal infections and how to tackle the ...

Laila Partida-Martinez and Christian Hertweck of the Leibniz Institute for Natural Products Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany, demonstrated that rhizoxin, a plant-rotting toxin believed to ...

The idea of deadly fungi might conjure up images of poisonous red mushroom caps with distinctive white spots – or sneaky false morels that can turn a fun day of foraging into an evening of ...

Back at the turn of the 21st century, valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the United States, with fewer than 3,000 reported cases a year, mostly in California and Arizona. Two decades later, ...

All stages of the fossil-fuel life cycle are a threat to human health, yet global overdependence on fossil fuel continues unabated, despite ambitious international agreements to lower greenhouse-gas ...