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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

The ‘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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Bioscience boost to battle ash dieback

08 Mar 2013

New computer models will help to monitor and predict the course of the disease.

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Professor Oliver Rackham leads a visit to Hayley Wood, August 2012

Hearts of oak

31 Aug 2012

Throughout his distinguished career as an ecologist Professor Oliver Rackham has been studying the delicate balance of habitats and species in Hayley...

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Pombe

New database for vital model organism launched

28 Nov 2011

The database, PomBase, important new tool for scientists researching fission yeast.

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