The role of a vast network of underground fungi can suck up roughly one-third of the Earth-warming carbon emissions that burning coal, oil and gas puts off each year. It’s an amount previously unknown ...

When you say “fungi,” most people think of mushrooms, showy fruiting bodies, but most fungi do not produce mushrooms. It is estimated that there are approximately 3 to 13 million fungal species on ...

The global human population is expected to reach ∼9 billion by 2050. Feeding this many people represents a major challenge requiring global crop yield increases of up to 100%. Microbial symbionts of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract There is a general consensus that nature-based biological measures can be used as a valuable tool to improve land quality. Microbial ...

In a new study published in Trends in Biotechnology, researchers used a gene-editing technology called CRISPR to increase a ...

As public concerns fuel the formation of policies aimed at lessening the environmental impacts of Canada’s agricultural industry, the critical role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in sustainable ...

Several species of tiny fungi completely new to science—and all from Alberta—have been discovered through University of ...

The rusty-red, irregularly shaped areas known as foxing or fox spots are prevalent on rag paper used in books from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Foxing may vary in size from just visible ...

Using CRISPR gene editing technology, researchers from Jiangnan University in China took a fungus that is already used as a ...

A high-fat diet changes fungi in the gut and may play a role in the development of obesity, according to a new study in mSphere, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. While gut microbes ...