Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences Bonito Lab

Mycology News

• Deadly behavior-modifying weapon identified in insect-world chemical arms race

  Published on September 30, 2018
  Leafcutter ants belonging to the genera Atta and Acromyrmex are well-known for their specialized gardening skills.

• Massasaugas snake skin microbiome is altered by fungal diseases

  Published on September 27, 2018
  This study, from Illinois, focuses on the alteration of the Massasaugas snake skin microbiome by fungal diseases.

• Pollution is hitting the fungi that nourish European trees

  Published on September 27, 2018
  A ten-year European study recently published in Nature led by Imperial College London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, researchers showed that tree characteristics and local air and soil quality have a large impact on mycorrhizae.

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  3rd Generation Sequencing Improves Fungal Barcoding

  Published on September 26, 2018
  Improvements in DNA sequencing has impacted research in many ways.

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  Is eating mushrooms helpful for sugar metabolism?

  Published on September 26, 2018
  DW News reported this week on a paper published in the Journal of Functional Foods by Tian et al. at Penn State University.

• Shroom boom: Mushroom pickers find big ones in UP

  Published on September 19, 2018
  Some huge mushrooms are popping up in the UP!

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  New fungus found on pistachio trees in Italy

  Published on September 19, 2018
  In 2010 Pistachio growers in Italy were seeing canker formation, gummosis, decline and possible death of their trees.

• Fungi are important for regulating the climate

  Published on September 18, 2018
  Above-ground fruiting bodies are plentiful this time of year, but the below-ground fungi are probably even more important.

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  Kew Gardens Releases Report on World Fungi

  Published on September 13, 2018
  On September 12, 2018 the Kew Royal Botanical Gardens released their first ever report on the state of the world’s fungi.

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  Current Fungal Biology – The importance of the mycobiome in wound treatment

  Published on December 13, 2016
  The human microbiome is defined as the assemblage of microorganisms that live in close association to the human body.