A fungal pathogen has rendered the Southern corroboree frog functionally extinct. Can genomics technologies pull the species ...

A fungal pathogen wiped out the world’s most popular banana, the Gros Michel, in the first half of the 20th century. Fungi are now coming for the Cavendish, the banana we bred to replace the ...

When it comes to disease causing pathogens, bacteria and viruses typically get all the love. Fungi, on the other hand, are often overlooked. But one Cleveland scientist thinks they may hold the ...

And for forever before that there were fungal pathogens in agriculture —- probably ever since humans started doing agriculture. But most of the book focuses on the past 100 years.

Like most opportunistic fungal pathogens, Cryptococcus infects mainly those whose immune system is compromised. Globally, the fungus kills about 112,000 people a year , and is responsible for ...

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), together with partners from the University of Cologne, ...

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 ...

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. "Fungal pathogen disables plant defense mechanism." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 June 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 06 / 200619104310 ...

“Fungal pathogens are becoming increasingly common and resistant to treatment, and we are only beginning to understand how climate change is contributing,” he told CNN.

Marty says fungi really can't do this because they mutate 10,000 times slower. And as an aside, the fungus in "The Last Of Us" that controls people's brains - it's made up. It's totally sci-fi.

Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as the planet heats up, new research predicts —and the world is not prepared.