Purdue mycologists Catherine Aime and Jorge Díaz-Valderrama examine cultures of Moniliophthora roreri, the fungus that causes frosty pod rot. (Purdue Agricultural Communication/Tom Campbell) Download ...

Researchers have discovered that an Ascomycete fungus that is common in polluted water produces environmentally important minerals during asexual reproduction. The key chemical in the process, ...

Fungus-farming ants around the world cultivate essentially the same fungus and are not as critical to the reproduction of the fungi as previously believed, biologists at The University of Texas at ...

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

The diterpene shown has been identified as a mating hormone used by members of the fungal plant pathogen family Phytophthora to regulate their sexual reproduction (Science 2005, 309, 1828). Members of ...

Many soil microbes play a vital role in ecosystems, as they help plants access nutrients and water and assist in stress tolerance, such as during drought, and to defend against pathogens. A fungus's ...

Sexual reproduction is a common attribute of eukaryotes owing to its potential to generate variability among individuals and to provide an advantage over species that are strictly asexual. Human ...

The fungi responsible for toenail infections and athlete's foot may reproduce by making clones of itself. According to a new paper published Wednesday in Genetics, the genome of the fungus responsible ...

Penicillin-producing fungus, previously thought to be asexual, has a sexual side. The finding is the latest in a kind of sexual revolution in fungal genetics By turning off the lights, setting up an ...

Biologists at The University of Nottingham and University College Dublin have announced a major breakthrough in our understanding of the sex life of a microscopic fungus which is a major cause of ...