Anther smut fungi, particularly those from the genus Microbotryum, are known to infect various plant species, leading to significant ecological and evolutionary consequences. These fungi often ...

He had one tiny foot planted in the East Coast Italian American culture that the rest of the country is deeply amused by and ...

Until the summer of 2022, the revered Mexican delicacy that some call a “corn truffle” or “corn smut” was unavailable ... supplying the corn fungus year-round. She opened the business ...

The fungus goes by many names, including sweet corn smut, corn mushrooms, and, in an effort to make it more appealing to newbies, Mexican truffles. It grows during Mexico's rainy season ...

This floret-infecting smut to bunt fungi damages the developing kernels where it produces black teliospores in sori and can be seed- and/or soil-borne with air-borne sporidial stage (Carris et al., ...

Within a few years, emerging diseases have caused severe losses to the farmers leading global economic importance. For example, rice false smut and sheath rot diseases were considered to be minor and ...

The most troublesome diseases on home lawns include dollar spot, brown patch, leaf spot, red thread, rust, and stripe smut. Dollar spot is active from late May through October, whereas brown patch ...

In this way, the nobility of our political plans and speeches will stand out in sharper contrast [to the smut].’ Soon after ... ‘German women’ and spread syphilis and other sexual diseases through the ...

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Yarros grew up an Army brat bouncing from place to place until her parents (both lieutenant colonels) retired and settled down in Colorado, where she still lives. While studying history at the ...

Historic Outbreaks of Coffee Wilt Disease Linked to Gene Transfer from Another Fungus Dec. 5, 2024 — The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related ...

Michael Cunliffe received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project MYCO-CARB and currently receives funding from the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme for the projects ...