Schultz and Brady used standard PCR techniques to sequence four nuclear, protein-coding genes, placing ants known to practice five distinct systems of farming their fungal crops on an evolutionary ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fungus, which lives inside the leaves ... is important for understanding the complexity of the co-evolution of trees and other organisms with which they interact. The current study is just ...

In a remarkable find, 160-million-year-old blue-stain fungi fossils have been unearthed in China's Jurassic Tiaojishan ...

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 ...

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 ...

His research also found fungi growing “in symbiosis with” – close by -trees could produce a nutritious food source for nearly 19 million people per year. “Fungi that grow in symbiosis with ...