http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/14/fungus-expert-celebrates-10000th-citation-for-1990-publication/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/14/fungus-expert-celebrates-10000th-citation-for-1990-publication/#comments Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:00:49 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32977 A 1990 publication by John Taylor, professor of plant and microbial biology, hit a rare benchmark when it was cited for the 10,000th time, according to Google Scholar. The publication by Taylor and his colleagues provided a simple technique for detecting fungal genes and is used broadly to "barcode" fungi and plants.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/14/fungus-expert-celebrates-10000th-citation-for-1990-publication/feed/ 0 http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy12/039.html http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy12/039.html#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:16:05 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=29234 UC Berkeley ecologist Jamie Voyles and SF State professor Vance Vredenburg took blood samples from frogs in the Sierra Nevada to track the spread of the deadly chytrid fungus. They found that the fungus disrupts fluid and electrolyte balance in wild frogs, severely depleting the frogs’ sodium and potassium levels and causing cardiac arrest and death.]]> http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/prsrelea/fy12/039.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/01/tree-killing-pathogen-traced-to-california/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/01/tree-killing-pathogen-traced-to-california/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:20:33 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=15863 California has emerged as the top suspect as the source of a pathogen responsible for a global pandemic of cypress canker disease. The genetic detective work by researchers at UC Berkeley and in Italy spotlights the hazards of planting trees and other vegetation in regions where they are not native. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/01/tree-killing-pathogen-traced-to-california/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/09/27/sclerotinia_spore_plumes/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/09/27/sclerotinia_spore_plumes/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:03:41 +0000 Robert Sanders http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1432 Many fungi, including the destructive Sclerotinia, spew thousands of spores at once to give the spores an extra boost into their host plants. UC Berkeley, Harvard and Cornell researchers now show how this works. The near-simultaneous ejection of spores reduces drag to nearly zero and creates a wind that carries some of the spores 20 times farther than a single spore could travel solo. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/09/27/sclerotinia_spore_plumes/feed/ 0