It's an exciting time to be a microbiologist working in rice research. A global push towards the cultivation of water-saving ...

Determining the impact of both environmental variation and developmental stage on plant-mycorrhizal associations is important, as both can shift the association along the mutualism-parasitism ...

ORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Since Village Nurseries started inoculating its plant inventory with mycorrhizae, the specialty grower for landscape professionals’ customer base has reported a ...

Nine vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal endophytes were assessed for their infectivity and ability to improve the growth of alpine strawberry seedlings in sterilized, low-phosphate soils (4 and 8 mg ...

Mycorrhizae are fungi that form mutually beneficial associations with plant roots. The mutualism works like this: The mycorrhiza grows in and around the plant’s root tissue, and its hyphae, or ...

How do mycorrhizal fungi help plants communicate? What are mycorrhizal fungi benefits? Learn about how mycorrhizal fungi help roots absorb nutrients and fight off predators in exchange for nutrients.

There have been incredible findings by researchers in recent years concerning how plants in our landscapes communicate with one another and insects. Would you believe that some plants send out SOS ...

You can't see them, but one teaspoonful of healthy soil can have a couple of miles of mycorrhizae in it. These fungi filaments ferry nutrients into plant roots, and adding it to seeds, or to hair ...

Fungal diseases in plants are always a problem, likely even more so this spring since we’ve been living through monsoon season. Likely, many of you are starting to experience powdery mildew or some ...