When it comes to disease causing pathogens, bacteria and viruses typically get all the love. Fungi, on the other hand, are often overlooked. But one Cleveland scientist thinks they may hold the ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Like weeds in a lawn, pathogenic fungi and yeasts (single-celled fungi) can invade and overtake our bodies. In people with healthy immune systems, cells called macrophages and neutrophils engulf ...

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a biological pathogen that they planned to study at a University of ...

A new study tracks the proliferation of fungal pathogens among various climate change scenarios—and it’s not good news.

A fungal pathogen wiped out the world’s most popular banana, the Gros Michel, in the first half of the 20th century. Fungi are now coming for the Cavendish, the banana we bred to replace the ...

The biological pathogen federal authorities accuse two Chinese nationals of smuggling into the U.S. was not likely an act of ...

And for forever before that there were fungal pathogens in agriculture —- probably ever since humans started doing agriculture. But most of the book focuses on the past 100 years.

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology. "Fungal pathogen disables plant defense mechanism." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 19 June 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 06 / 200619104310 ...

A fungus that affects strawberry plants is forcing at least one P.E.I. farm to change its operations this summer.

Like weeds in a lawn, pathogenic fungi and yeasts can invade and overtake our bodies. In people with healthy immune systems, cells called macrophages and neutrophils engulf these pathogens ...