Purdue mycologists Catherine Aime and Jorge Díaz-Valderrama examine cultures of Moniliophthora roreri, the fungus that causes frosty pod rot. (Purdue Agricultural Communication/Tom Campbell) Download ...

Sexual reproduction is a common attribute of eukaryotes owing to its potential to generate variability among individuals and to provide an advantage over species that are strictly asexual. Human ...

New light has been shed on a fascinating phenomenon of the natural world -- the ability of some species to reproduce sexually without a partner. When sex occurs the fungus activates its internal ...

The diterpene shown has been identified as a mating hormone used by members of the fungal plant pathogen family Phytophthora to regulate their sexual reproduction (Science 2005, 309, 1828). Members of ...

Fungi-eating orchids were found for the first time to offer their flowers to fungi-eating fruit flies in exchange for pollination, which is the first evidence for nursery pollination in orchids. This ...

AUSTIN, Texas--Fungus-farming ants around the world cultivate essentially the same fungus and are not as critical to the reproduction of the fungi as previously believed, biologists at The University ...

Though some might disagree, most biologists think the purpose of sex is to create diversity among offspring. Such diversity underpins evolution, enabling organisms to acquire new combinations of ...

Saprotrophic fungi are obliged to spend energy on growth, reproduction, and substrate digestion. To understand the trade-offs involved, we developed a model that, for any given growth rate, identifies ...

Penicillin-producing fungus, previously thought to be asexual, has a sexual side. The finding is the latest in a kind of sexual revolution in fungal genetics By turning off the lights, setting up an ...

A fungal parasite that infects ants and manipulates their behavior to benefit the fungus' reproduction accomplishes this feat without infecting the ants' brains, according to a study led by Penn State ...

The fungi responsible for toenail infections and athlete's foot may reproduce by making clones of itself. According to a new paper published Wednesday in Genetics, the genome of the fungus responsible ...