Researchers explain an evolutionary step in the symbiosis between plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. What would it be like to produce fertilizer in your own basement? Leguminous plants, like peas, ...

In a study published in Science, researchers have resolved, for the first time, the high-resolution crystal structure of the ...

Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi that interact with plants are distantly related and don't share many genetic similarities. Comparing plant pathogenic fungi and plant symbiotic fungi, scientists at the ...

How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi? The team of Caroline Gutjahr, Director at the Max Planck Institute of ...

The greatest need in agriculture this century is to mitigate impacts of abiotic (drought, temperature, salinity) and biotic (pathogens, pests) stresses on crop plants. Efforts over the last 40 years ...

A study on medicinal plants published in Cell highlights the symbiotic relationship between humans and plant species, particularly in the context of medicine. This relationship, which spans millennia, ...

Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 29, No. 3 (May 2018), pp. 560-568 (9 pages) Plants associated with symbiotic N-fixing bacteria play important roles in early successional, riparian and semi-dry ...