By boosting beneficial microbes, researchers hope to increase crop resilience while reducing the use of synthetic nitrogen ...

Scientists working for government breed biological control agents in lab to take on species choking native wildlife Crayfish, weevils and fungi are being released into the environment in order to ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

For a team of researchers at KU, fungal doomsday looks less like parasitic mushrooms transforming people into zombies, and ...