Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered a way to make soil fungus work harder, delivering more nutrients to plants.

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The fungi can’t survive without carbon, and the plants produce plenty of carbon through photosynthesis. The plants need water ...

Kronstad and his colleagues, in a recent review published in Nature, warned that this evolution could lead to more human ...

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Henry Sila Nzioki has developed a weed-killing fungus to improve food security. “I’m a plant pathologist at the Kenya ...

Both fungal and bacterial methods worked. In fact, the bacterially mineralized scaffolds reached full mineralization in just ...

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The ...

Engineers have developed a building material that uses the root-like mycelium of a fungus and bacteria cells. Their results show that this material -- which is manufactured with living cells at low ...

A breakthrough study by Montana State University researchers unveils an organic substance that could someday be used as a building material.

Researchers have used a fungus and bacteria to create rigid, living structures similar to bone and coral, which could one day ...