Farmers and nursery managers often use fungicide is to tackle plant rust disease, but we need to find ways to decrease our ...

Fungi may help some tree-killer beetles turn a tree’s natural defense system against itself. This fungi-made perfume might explain why bark beetles tend to swarm the same tree. As climate change makes ...

Gardeners the world over dread the appearance of aphids on their plants. There are around 4,000 species of these sap-sucking insects and about 250 are pests that can wreak havoc on crops in a garden ...

Most fungi are out of sight, spending most of their lives hidden as a vast, threadlike network called mycelium and producing ...

Researchers report on the influence of an endophytic fungus of the genus Cladosporium on the defense of black poplars against herbivorous insects. The fungus, which lives inside the leaves, not only ...

You do not have to be a nature enthusiast to appreciate the planting of spaced-out trees alongside city sidewalks, giving a splash of color and life to the urban surroundings. However, because of the ...

You’ve probably heard the stories: that through an intricate network of underground fungi, trees send nutrients and warning signals back and forth to one another. In Pulitzer Prize-wining novels, New ...

MIAMI — A fungus carried by an invasive beetle from southeast Asia is felling trees across the Everglades, and experts have not found a way to stop the blight from spreading. Then there’s a bigger ...

Aileen Baird receives studentship funding from Natural Environment Research Council via the DREAM CDT (NE/M009009/1). Francis Pope is affiliated with the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR ...

Beneath the forest floor, a vast network of fungi, known as mycorrhizal networks, connects trees, facilitating the exchange ...