“If we find out exactly how Mortierella works against nematodes, we could perhaps use this fungus specifically as a biological control agent against plant pathogens,” says Büttner, who has ...

“And so we seem to have cooked out the fungal pathogens.” Without fungi to aid in decomposition, all life in the forest would soon be buried under a mountain of dead plant matter. “[Fungi ...

to detect when one plant has been attacked, and then warn the other plants to prepare themselves," he added in an email to Live Science. "This could be beneficial for fungi because it helps them to ...

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies against such pathogens, understanding the plant's immune response is of ...

Members of the ascomycete fungi genus Fusarium range from plant pathogens to soil dwellers. The publication of a genomic comparison of several Fusarium species sheds light on the differences ...

Like animals, plants are susceptible to infection by organisms like fungi, bacteria and viruses. Many plant pathogens are microfungi, which are practically invisible to the human eye. They don’t ...

When plants release SLs, they signal fungi to attach to their roots ... Understanding this chemical language could also help block such pathogens. Due to the complexity of the soil ecosystem ...

Several other complementary research interests in our laboratory are: restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of intraspecific variation in plant pathogenic fungi; stress and hormonal ...

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