Raman spectroscopy study decodes symbiotic interactions in marine algae. Story by Lavinia Meier-Ewert • 7mo. I n a recent study, researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology ...

Odd plants from a remote Pacific island reveal new insights into an important ecological question: how unrelated and ...

T he journey into a squid isn’t an easy one. But the bioluminescent marine microbe Vibrio fischeri is up for the challenge. Usually a free-living bacterium, V. fischeri has evolved a part-time ...

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

Industrial farming practices often deplete the soil of important nutrients and minerals, leaving farmers to rely on artificial fertilizers to support plant growth. In fact, fertilizer use has more ...

A recent study published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions by Mohammad Zarrabian of Aarhus University and colleagues discovered an exceptional case of symbiotic promiscuity between 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 ...

There is a need for symbiotic relationships to be more objective than subjective. There is a need to pursue the facts of the relationship interaction rather than just each other’s emotional ...