Researchers have demonstrated that unique fungi strengthen the 'immune systems' of wheat and bean plants against aphids. Fungi enter and influence the amount of a plant's own defenses, resulting in ...

Some stringy fungi are tough negotiators, trading nutrients shrewdly with plants. An advance in tracking the nutrient phosphorus has revealed new details of ancient trading networks between fungi and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. In a study published at the end of 2018, scientists used vast amounts of ...

Scientists have created plants whose cells and tissues 'blush' with beetroot pigments when they are colonized by fungi that help them take up nutrients from the soil. This is the first time this vital ...

Fungi, thriving over a billion years ago in soil, air, and oceans, may have been Earth’s first ecosystem engineers, predating ...

While you might think that it's best to keep crops fungus-free, there are some fungi that actually help plants grow. In order to observe that relationship, scientists have created plants with roots ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The “State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2020” report, released this week, was born of the collaborative effort of 200 scientists from 42 ...

Healthy prairie community with grey-headed coneflower and bee balm. (Photo by Liz Koziol) The North American prairie once covered 170 million acres, making it the largest ecosystem on the continent, ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before — at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

Scientists are identifying new species at an unprecedented pace, according to fresh research from the University of Arizona.

This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...