(Credit: Syrena Whitner, University of Hawai'i) A variety of colorful marine fungi grown in petri dishes in Anthony Amend's lab. Hawaii is home to some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes.

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — The discovery of a powerful 'weapon' used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could offer new strategies to ...

Plant pathogenic fungi can be classified as biotrophic, necrotrophic or hemibiotrophic, depending on their host interaction for their nutrition. Necrotrophic fungi kill host plant cells and use the ...

Because of their short generation times and large population sizes, fungi can evolve rapidly. FpnA, an Aspergillus fumigatus homolog of the human iron transporter ferroportin showed no iron efflux ...

Free body diagrams do not need to be drawn to scale but it can sometimes be useful if they are. It is important to label each arrow to show the magnitude of the force it represents. The type of ...

It consists of three subsections stigma, stile and ovary as shown in the following diagram of longitudinal section of flower. The male reproductive part of the flower is known as stamen.