Cuitlacoche, also known as huitlacoche, is a parasitic fungus that exclusively grows on maize plants, affecting their corn kernels, stalks and leaves. Called corn smut in English, it typically ...

Introduction: Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are important for the resistance of plants to insect infestation and diseases. However, the effect of AM fungal colonization of plants response to ...

Some of those people are allergic to raw or cooked corn. While it's a common food, corn allergy is much less common than are allergies to wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, milk, soy, fish, shellfish ...

In order to optimise R&D efforts, WHO further lists priority diseases caused by these pathogens for funding allocation including COVID-19, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease ...

“Whole genome pathogen tracking has become the gold standard in infectious disease research, and phylogenetic approaches are at its core,” said Paul Planet, MD, assistant professor of ...

If individual plants have poor ears, it’s probably from insects or diseases such as crazy top and corn smut. Nutrient deficiencies rarely affect single plants. Areas with uniformly poor stands ...

A new zombie pathogen has been discovered in Ireland. This insidious fungus infects cave spiders and alters their behavior to help spread its spores to new victims. Later expeditions found similar ...

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The Toll-1 receptor triggered the release of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as expected, which attack and try to kill pathogens. However, the fungus also provoked Toll-1 to trigger the production ...

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