Lichens colonize trees and rocks all over the world. They are symbiotic communities between fungi and photosynthetically ...

Ghent, 18 August 2026 – Scientists at VIB and Ghent University have produced the first high-resolution, cell-by-cell map of how tomato roots respond to colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a novel enzyme involved in building the cell wall of Cryptococcus neoformans, a fungus that causes lung infections and potentially deadly cases of ...

A team of researchers at Tianjin University has developed a scalable process that converts the mycelium of the filamentous ...

An organism as a tenant in another - in biology, this often works quite well. ETH researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish. Endosymbiosis is a ...

Two new research studies are addressing the rising threat of fungal infections, which can be very difficult to treat. One study has examined the cell walls of fungi to look for weaknesses, while ...

A previously overlooked transcription factor in the fungus that causes Fusarium wilt of tomato has been shown to underpin the ...

The treatment of invasive fungal infections hinges on a delicate exploitation of differences between fungal pathogens and their human hosts. Central to this endeavour is the unique composition and ...

A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology discovered a previously unknown strategy by which certain ...