Tag: Bacteriology
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Posted on October 10, 2018
Recovering from a heart attack? Hold the antibiotics
The community of microorganisms that live in the human gut has been shown to confer all kinds of health benefits. Now, an international team of […]
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Posted on October 2, 2018
Set in amber, fossil ants help reconstruct evolution of fungus farming
Some 50 million years before humans figured it out, agriculture arrived in the world in a seemingly unlikely place: an ant hill. Eschewing wheat or […]
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Posted on September 28, 2018
In dangerous fungal family’s befriending of plants, a story of loss
If Lewis Carroll had described in detail the mushroom Alice nibbles in Wonderland to shrink and grow to her rightful size, he might have noted […]
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Posted on August 28, 2018
An ocean apart, carnivorous pitcher plants create similar communities
After a six-hour ride over increasingly treacherous roads, it took a full day’s hike up almost 3,000 feet for Leonora Bittleston to reach Nepenthes Camp […]
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Posted on August 7, 2018
Scientists identify corn that fixes its own nitrogen, needing less fertilizer
A public-private collaboration of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of California, Davis, and Mars Inc., have identified varieties of tropical corn from […]
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Posted on June 7, 2018
UW spinoffs win awards, including top honor, at Governor’s Business Plan Contest
A University of Wisconsin–Madison spinoff won the grand prize and three others won top awards in their categories in the 15th annual Governor’s Business Plan […]
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Posted on May 22, 2018
A hidden world of communication, chemical warfare, beneath the soil
The soil supporting a field of crops teems with life. Untold numbers of bacteria and fungi strive for space and food. Most are harmless. Many […]
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Posted on April 20, 2018
CALS’ Robert Landick among three from UW–Madison elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced April 18 that three faculty from the University of Wisconsin–Madison were elected to the 2018 class of […]
- Posted on March 20, 2018
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Posted on February 20, 2018
The new bioenergy research center: Building on ten years of success
Building on the success of 10 years of investigation into the production of renewable fuels from plants, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), led […]