Proteins Enable Crop-Infecting Fungi to 'Smell' Food
Published:30 Dec.2020 Source:University of California - Riverside
New research shows the same proteins that enable human senses such as smell also allow certain fungi to sense something they can eat.
The UC Riverside study offers new avenues for protecting people from starvation due to pathogenic fungus-induced food shortages. Understanding how fungi sense and digest plants can also help scientists engineer fungal strains that are more efficient at producing biofuels.