In an article published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists report that these insects are able to ...

Soil-borne diseases, caused by pathogens like fungi and bacteria, threaten agriculture, human health, and soil health.

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

This fungus causes potentially fatal respiratory infections. New fungal pathogens are emerging. Candida auris is considered the first new fungal pathogen to emerge due to climate change.

The study demonstrates that this RNAi approach shuts down vital fungal genes, thereby inhibiting pathogen growth - a ...

The insect said to threaten the food security of 600 million people globally may have met its match in the form of several ...

A bacterium makes a molecule that kills drug-resistant fungi in an unusual way — by targeting various phospholipid molecules in membranes. Read the paper: A polyene macrolide targeting ...

While the red listing of more mushrooms and their relatives has been welcomed, the results paint a worrying picture. Almost a ...

Fungal infections may not be as common as bacterial or viral infections, but they can still be deadly. And the deadliest pathogenic fungi, such as Candida auris, are becoming increasingly ...

The fungi, in turn, provide the ants with nutrients. Of the four pathogens tested, two were harmful to the ants and two to the cultivated fungi.