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WSU team engineers fungus to produce jet-range hydrocarbons from biomass
2015-05-06 13:55:40| Green Car Congress
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Deadly Frog Fungus Invades Madagascar
2015-03-03 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A deadly fungus which has been ravaging amphibian populations across the world has somehow found its way to the isolated island of Madagascar, according to new surveys. And that's the stuff of nightmares for conservationists, as the island happens to be countless frog species, 99 percent of which can be found nowhere else in the world. A study, recently published in the journal Nature details how the fatal fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) seems to have first appeared in the Madagascar...
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How climate change and a deadly fungus threaten our coffee supply
2014-06-02 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: In the next 24 hours, the world will guzzle 1.6 billion cups of coffee, the most popular beverage on the planet besides water and tea. It`s big business, too: Global coffee exports totaled $28.6 billion in 2013--after oil, it is the world`s most traded commodity. But there`s something else that likes coffee even more than humans: Hemileia vastatrix, better known as coffee rust or roya disease. It`s a fungal parasite that survives on coffee tree leaves, and in the 2012-13 crop year alone, it caused...
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Nanochip Made Of Recycled Plastic That Can Kill Foot Fungus And Yeast ...
2013-12-10 12:29:12| Biotech - Topix.net
Scientists convert common plastic materials like PET into non-toxic materials designed to specifically target and attack fungal infections, including athlete's foot and yeast infections.
A donation to fight the fungus
2013-11-09 12:43:36| Food - Topix.net
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in Waterbury has donated $1.9 million to an initiative to help coffee farmers in Latin America fight the devastation being wrought on coffee plantations across the region by a fungal disease known as la roya, or coffee rust.