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Oak trees rely on microbes to survive drought and disease

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 , but a fungus can help save them

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

Deciphering the profiles of grapevine microbiomes from rhizosphere-to-leaf compartments using multi-omic analysis

1 Institute of Pomology, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Horticultural Crop Genetic Improvement, Nanjing, China 2 College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture ...
The Lancet

Impact of climate change and natural disasters on fungal infections

aFaculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Institute of Translational Research, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging–Associated Diseases ...
BBC

One of the rarest fungi in Britain found on estate

One of Britain's rarest fungi has been found on an estate in Hertfordshire. The Vaulted Earthstar, scientifically known as Geastrum britannicum, was spotted on The Box Moor Trust Estate in Hemel ...