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#Fungi disarm #BarkBeetle chemical shields by converting their plant-derived toxins phys.org/news/2025-12-fungus-b… pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525…

"a bark beetle can co-opt a tree's defensive compounds to make defenses against its own enemies. However, since one of the enemies, the #fungus Beauveria bassiana, has developed the ability to detoxify these antimicrobial defenses, it can successfully infect the #BarkBeetles and thus actually help the tree in its battle against bark #beetles"

#Fungi #Symbiosis

Fungus disarms bark beetle chemical shields by converting their plant-derived toxins

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has investigated how these plant defenses function within the food web, particularly in spruc…
Max Planck Society (Phys.org)
#fungi #fungus #symbiosis #beetles #barkbeetle #barkbeetles

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#Coffee wilt disease is caused by the #fungus #Fusarium xylarioides. @little_peck @TimBarraclough9 &co compare 13 strains spanning 60 years & many outbreaks, showing that successive HGT from F. oxysporum affected host specificity & disease #PLOSBiology plos.io/4gnYTVk

Horizontal transfers between fungal Fusarium species contributed to successive outbreaks of coffee wilt disease

Outbreaks of coffee wilt disease, caused by the fungus Fusarium xylarioides, have severely impacted coffee production.
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#Coffee #plosbiology #fungus #fusarium

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#Aspergillus fumigatus, a saprotrophic #fungus that can cause serious life-threatening invasive infections, smashes the record for number of meiotic crossovers... ~30 per #chromosome (>2x the previous record holder) @TheRedBen @EvelineSnelders #PLOSBiology plos.io/3rc3k1L

The human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus can produce the highest known number of meiotic crossovers

Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprotrophic fungus that can cause serious life-threatening invasive infections in immunocompromised individuals. By constructing a recombination map, this study shows that A.
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#plosbiology #fungus #chromosome #Aspergillus

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Hi Mastodon #garden lovers or #soil knowers or #fungus experts, I have no idea what I've come home to in part of my newly planted garden, #help? looks like some sort of #seed? I recently added a heavy dose of #compost to this garden and planted lupin seeds underneath this particular area, but this looks odd!
#garden #help #soil #fungus #seed #compost

Before the #LastOfUsHBO made #Cordyceps famous, I wrote about how they control the minds of insects and how another #fungus comes to the rescue. (From my time as associate blogger #STCmicrobeblog a long time ago.)
schaechter.asmblog.org/schaech…

An Evolutionary Tale of Zombie Ants and Fungal Villains & Knights

by Gemma Reguera | In a recent post I shared with you some amazing things I had learnt about coprophilous (‘dung-loving’) fungi that spit their spores like pros.
Small Things Considered
#fungus #lastofushbo #cordyceps #stcmicrobeblog

#nature #science #weird #podcast #scicomm #caves #mushrooms #centipedes #amoebas #strange #oddity #fungus #naturalist @Open Science ✅

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