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 ...

Puffball Mushroom releasing Spores dust in Tropical Rainforest.Getty Images There are many reasons to fear a new fungal pathogen—from the paucity of antifungal drug options to lack of vaccines and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, posing significant challenges to healthcare systems. Beyond the direct ...

In a recent review article published in The Lancet Microbe, researchers synthesized what is currently known about fungal adaptations to rises in global temperatures. Their conclusions indicate that ...

Modern diagnostic methods allow growers to detect pathogens earlier and identify disease pressure with far greater precision ...

When we shift from understanding disease to preventing it, the same framework applies. The infectious disease triad can be ...