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Fungi can help NASA deduce how climate change affects forests
2016-04-02 04:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Engadget: A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has developed a new method to detect what kind of mycorrhizae are attached to the roots of trees using only satellite images. Mycorrhizae are fungi that form mutually beneficial relationships with the roots of trees, increasing the plants' absorption capability and providing them with direct access to sugars. There are two types of mycorrhizae, and each tree/plant species is only associated with either one of them. Since the two respond differently to...
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Could fungi help pine forests withstand climate change?
2016-03-23 12:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Arthur Conan Doyle's famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes once noted that "the little things are infinitely the most important." It's a belief that investigators at the University of Alberta obviously share. Whether they're seeking to understand the tiniest forms of life, taking small steps toward major breakthroughs or influencing students in subtle but profound ways, U of A researchers and educators are proving that little things can make a big impact. The lodgepole pine is one of the most...
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Even Plant-Supporting Soil Fungi Affected by Global Warming, UCI Study Finds
2016-03-08 12:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newswise: On a cool, fog-shrouded mountain of Costa Rica, University of California, Irvine biologist Caitlin Looby is finding that warming temperatures are becoming an increasing problem for one of the most ecologically diverse places on Earth. Seeking to determine how shifts in the tropical mountain cloud forest ecosystem would affect resident fungal species in Monteverde, Looby and fellow ecology & evolutionary biology graduate student Mia Maltz and their adviser, Kathleen Treseder, found that as the moist...
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Newly identified enzymes from herbivore gut fungi may lead to cheaper cellulosic biofuels
2016-02-19 11:56:13| Green Car Congress
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DNA samples from Purdue, Kew fungi collections provide key to mushroom 'tree of life'
2015-05-22 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Genetic material from fungi collections at Purdue University and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, helped a team of researchers resolve the mushroom “tree of life,” a map of the relationships between key mushroom species and their evolutionary history that scientists have struggled to piece together for more than 200 years. The group used DNA from frozen, heat-dried and freeze-dried specimens to analyze a dataset of 39 genomes representing most of the known fami…