A new study shows that tiny microbes living in and around oak trees may help them survive drought, poor soil, and disease.

Bark beetles can destroy spruce forests by converting the trees' defences into even more toxic substances, scientists ...

Researchers have shed new light on the ancient relationship between moss and fungi. They discovered that intricate moss-fungi interactions often depended on a third variable -- the presence of ...

The arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) symbiosis is formed by a monophyletic group of fungi from the phylum Glomeromycota and the roots of 70–90% of land plant species. AM fungi are considered to be 'living ...

Fungal evolution refers to the heritable genetic changes that a fungus accumulates during its life time, which can arise from adaptations in response to environmental changes or the immune response of ...