Artificially intelligent software has human-like ability to analyze host-pathogen interactions in microscopy images.

Stony coral tissue loss disease has already affected 80 percent of Florida’s coastal reef system. Now, a huge team of responders is working to slow its spread and prepare for future restoration efforts.

A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.

In plants ranging from liverworts to wheat, parasitic water molds build intracellular structures analogous to the nutrient-exchanging structures of symbiotic fungi.

Pathogens appear to steal the metal from plants using the erratic motion of microscopic particles.

A growing branch of research on how plants use exosomes to interact with their environment is opening up a new field of plant biology.

A compound produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa activates signaling pathways that prevent seeds from growing in unfavorable environments.

Scientists suspect the rapidly spreading beech leaf disease is due to an unidentified microbe.

The energy-producing organelles also send out parcels with antimicrobial compounds to help destroy pathogen invaders in macrophages.