By allowing this mold to inhabit the sand layer, which was once just a pile of stones, we have transformed it into a "factory that decomposes pathogens." The combination of sand as a physical filter ...

There is an urgent need to increase global crop production to meet the demands of the ongoing and predicted rises in population and the challenges of climate change. However, crop production is ...

Textiles are susceptible to mould growth, which can cause staining, weakening, or complete destruction of fibres. Moulds feed by digesting the substrate on which they grow. Cellulosic fibres such as ...

We studied the effectiveness of application of Trichoderma spp. in controlling white mold on common beans at the fall-winter crop in the Zona da Mata region of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. There ...