The intricate dance of nature often unfolds in mysterious ways, hidden from the naked eye. At the heart of this enigmatic tango lies a vital partnership: the symbiosis between plants and a type of ...

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.

Plants are constantly on guard. Their roots are equipped with molecular alarm systems that detect invading microbes and trigger immune responses. Yet beneficial soil fungi routinely enter living root ...

image: The image is of a fungal cell. It was made using a special microscope called a scanning laser confocal microscope. The different colors are a result of three different lasers which excite ...

Medicago truncatula root colonized with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungus, Diversispora epigaea. D. epigaea hyphae and arbuscules within the root and also hyphae around the root are visible as green ...