Microbes are at the forefront of sustainability, enhancing agriculture and biotechnology through innovative solutions like ...

Dr Harry Langford, Head of Sustainability at the UK Agri-Tech Centre, highlights the role of soil health in agriculture.

It is more likely plants use their communication networks to "eavesdrop" on their neighbours than alert them to dangers, an Oxford ...

A new study has used a modelling approach to show that it is unlikely that plants would evolve to warn other plants of impending attack. Instead of using their communication networks to transmit ...

The findings suggest that plants are more likely to passively “eavesdrop” on their neighbors through shared fungal networks.

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A biological mechanism makes plant roots more hospitable to microbes. Researchers at the John Innes Centre have identified a ...

The naming of the fungal species Trichophyton indotineae has sparked a debate among dermatologists and scientists, who argue that the term unfairly stigmatises India and does not accurately reflect ...

Arbuscular mycorrhiza is the most common form of symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant. The fungal hyphae penetrate plant cells and develop branching ...