A team of medical professionals and infectious disease researchers at the University of Rochester, in New York, has found ...

The fungus that causes the disease uses the peptide to activate an immune receptor in the plant. The affected cells then die. Barley is one of the world's most important grain crops with 155 ...

In 2024, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, recorded 172 new species of plants and fungi across the globe, from ...

FROM toothy toadstools to ghost palms in Borneo, close to 200 new plants and fungi were introduced to the scientific world in ...

From a toadstool with teeth to a vine smelling of marzipan and a flower that has cheated its way out of having to ...

The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the Plant Kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new analysis.

Most streamed TV shows. Best albums of the year. Well, here's a list you probably haven't seen - new plant and fungus species discovered in 2024. Martin Cheek is a conservation botanist and a ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Martin Cheek, a conservation botanist for the Royal Botanic Gardens, about new plant and fungus species he and his colleagues discovered this year.