More information: Christin Walther et al, A Fungal Endophyte Alters Poplar Leaf Chemistry, Deters Insect Feeding and Shapes Insect Community Assembly, Ecology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1111/ele.

7. Impatiens pallida leaves were infected by many species of Alternaria; mycelium often projected into the air on the lower sides of the leaf spots. 8. Most of the diseases were not serious; they are ...

Very little work has previously been reported upon the effect of fungi on the cell contents of leaves, and the writer has shown that in such cells the nuclear and protoplasmic changes, which other ...

such as the poplar leaf beetle Chrysomela tremulae. "It was particularly exciting for us to see that the fungus can produce an alkaloid that we can detect in the plant matrix and thus use as a ...

A Pennsylvania state forestry expert says native pests are causing troublesome impacts to several valuable tree species.

Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests, cultivating bumper crops of fungi that are the ants' sole food source. Foragers cut pieces of leaves from ...