Nearly a third of species of fungi assessed by an international conservation group are at risk of extinction from threats ...

There are new signs that a dangerous fungus is once again on the move. Candida auris is a type of yeast that can cause ...

A while back, I was testing a recipe for grissini, or Italian breadsticks, that called for both baker's and brewer's yeast. Found in focaccia recipes, too, brewer's yeast is a holdover from the ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots. An imaging study now sheds light on how these ...

The study also found a higher abundance of yeast in daycares and molds in private houses. Almost half (49%) of the fungi found indoors were shared between daycares and homes, but 31% were unique ...

Nematode trapping fungi trap and kill nematodes using specialized trapping devices, which are highly efficient and non-toxic to the environment, and are very promising for use as biological control ...

Pure cultures were stored at −80°C in glycerol (30% v/v) stocks. Total DNA of bacteria and yeast were extracted using a bacterial or fungal genomic DNA extraction kit, respectively (Tiangen, Beijing, ...

Mitophagy plays an important role in mitochondrial homeostasis. In yeast, the phosphorylation of the mitophagy receptor Atg32 by casein kinase 2 is essential for mitophagy. This phosphorylation is ...

Aneuploidy is also common in several fungal species including fungal pathogens ... or beneficial in some cells but highly deleterious in others is not understood. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...