How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi ...

During a billion years of evolution, they’ve become masters ... forest would soon be buried under a mountain of dead plant matter. “[Fungi] are the garbage disposal agents of the natural ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these ...

A study published last month in Nature Plants describes shared biochemical pathways involved in vitamin B6 levels that link ...

Plant evolution is the subset of evolutionary phenomena that concern plants. The study of plant evolution includes the study of genetic change and the variations that result in speciation.

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How will our forest trees cope with the loss of these bird-fungus interactions, which help facilitate plant growth on ... of ...

growth and ultrastructure of fungi; heritability of wood properties and disease resistance of trees; biochemistry and physiology of plant stress response; photosynthesis; mycorrhizae; plant ...

Now, a research team has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed ... its physiological impact across plant diversity," adds Dr Tim Rieseberg ...

Elya is also brainstorming some “wonkier” applications inspired by behavior-manipulating fungi adapting to particular quirks of insect biology. For example, when Ophiocordyceps needs to secure its ...