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This microscopic image shows the spores and hyphae of 'friendly' arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus interacting with a plant root.

‘Smoke detector’ enables fungal partnership that allowed plants to first survive on land

18 Dec 2015

A protein that detects hormones in smoke has a much wider and more ancient role in the plant kingdom – detecting microscopic soil fungi which...

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R100 at mast in Canada

̽»¨Ö±²¥â€˜flying scientist’ who chased spores

11 Feb 2015

A passion for fungi led Cambridge mycologist Dr Dillon Weston to ever-more inventive means of trapping fungal spores, even from the open window of an...

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Pombe

New database for vital model organism launched

28 Nov 2011

̽»¨Ö±²¥database, PomBase, important new tool for scientists researching fission yeast.

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