Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are resurrecting their genomes to understand how and why

For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard ...

Good fungus may one day help save plants from bad fungus like deadly myrtle rust disease

Our previous research also identified that fungi can protect crop plants such as wheat, barley and oats from rust disease. Similar studies around the world have found fungi can also protect against ...

First evidence of a 'critical priority' fungal pathogen becoming more deadly when co-infected with tuberculosis

Cryptococcus neoformans is one of four fungi classified as "critical priority" on the WHO's Fungal Pathogens Priority List, ...
Yahoo

This growing fungal disease outbreak spreads through dust and dirt

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SALINAS, CA − A lethal fungus has quietly spread in the soil across the West. Now, it’s threatening areas well beyond the dusty ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Fungal diseases are the real thorns in the rose garden

Roses do not have thorns; they have prickles. But there ARE “thorns” in the rose garden. Their names are botrytis, black spot, rust, downy mildew, anthracnose and cerospora leaf spot. They are all ...

State confirms outbreak of sexually transmitted fungal infection, experts urge caution

The fungal skin infection TMVII is spreading in Minnesota through direct contact. Health experts advise medical care for ...
Nature

Snake Fungal Disease and Reptile Mycoses

Snake fungal disease (SFD) and related reptile mycoses represent an emerging threat to both wild and captive reptile populations. These conditions are caused primarily by fungal pathogens such as ...