In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue ...

The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of ...

placing ants known to practice five distinct systems of farming their fungal crops on an evolutionary tree based on the molecular data. The phylogeny concurs with speculation that fungi farming arose ...

When trees and soil fungi form close associations ... symbiotic associations with fungi over the course of evolution. These mycorrhizal fungi, which either wrap themselves around roots or ...

A new analysis published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, however ... It’s not that relationships between trees and fungi don’t exist, says co-author Justine Karst, an ecologist at the ...

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, ...

A sweeping review study, published this month in Nature Ecology and Evolution ... and that trees communicate defense signals through the underground web of fungi. Yet in lieu of convincing ...

Trees now account for more than a quarter of all species on the Red List and are at risk of extinction in nearly every country. Fungi — or a lack thereof — could partly explain why trees are ...

When trees and soil fungi form close associations ... symbiotic associations with fungi over the course of evolution. These mycorrhizal fungi, which either wrap themselves around roots or ...