To prevent tar spot, mostly you just have to hope that the weather this coming spring is not wet enough for the fungus to ...

A discovery reported in the latest edition of the journal Nature (June 13, 2002) -- that fungi on the roots of some trees in the Northeastern United States help supply much-needed calcium in forest ...

Pollution is changing the fungi that provide mineral nutrients to tree roots, which could explain malnutrition trends in Europe's trees. Pollution is changing the fungi that provide mineral nutrients ...

A tree fungus spurred by this spring's rains is raising alarm among some Central Minnesota homeowners. The wet, cool weather has been ideal for anthracnose, a disease caused by a tree fungus that ...

Question: Good afternoon, Carol. Here is a photo of some sort of fungi growing on one of our three mature birch trees in the front yard. I have not been able to identify it via the internet, so am ...

A Fungus growing on a living tree is a symptom of heart rot. Trees are infected through wounds from lawn mowers, weed-whacker whips, deer rubbing, rodent chewing, frost cracks, broken branches and ...

A hidden world of fungi abounds inside healthy leaves, and scientists are beginning to learn what it’s doing there. A research team reports that in tree leaves, these fungi, called endophytes, can ...

Forest ecosystems play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. While the significance of tree mycorrhizal fungi in this ...

An aggressive fungus known as Phellinus noxius has been widely observed to cause “brown root rot” on trees in many parts of the Asia-Pacific region extending from Malaysia to as far as American Samoa.

Brown root rot disease of trees, caused by the fungus Phellinus noxius (fell-ly-nuss nok-shuss), has been damaging and killing trees worldwide in both urban and forest areas. In 2013, I participated ...