How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi? The team of Prof. Dr. Caroline Gutjahr, director at the Max Planck ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal species are ...

Over the course of evolution, it has developed into one of the most intimate interactions between living beings. The close partnership between plants and fungi, in which water and nutrients are ...

an associate professor in plant-soil interactions at the University of Leeds. The fungi provided essential minerals for land plants that allowed them to spread and turn the planet green ...

A visualization of potential bacterial associates (green) in fungal hyphae using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), performed in collaboration with the Center for Integrated ...

(2) How do fungi interact with other microorganisms? and (3) Where are potential unexplored habitats of novel fungal diversity? Genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics, phylogenetics, and molecular ...

Though no one may be around to hear when a tree falls in the forest, countless critters take note. Dormant fungi within the tree awaken to feast on it, joined by others that creep up from the soil.

Previous studies of endophytic fungi living inside certain grasses ... in an endophytic fungus whose role in poplar-insect interactions is still largely unexplored," says first author Christin ...

“But it is also expected because it fits the pattern of healthy microbiomes throughout the body, including the gut, mouth and skin, where bacteria and fungi interact as part of a complex community.” ...