Soo Chan Lee is senior research associate in molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University. Here he explains how scientists are uncovering entirely new species of fungi and dissecting their ...

What Is a DNA Barcode? A DNA barcode is a short, standardized region of the genome used to identify an organism to species. Strictly, the DNA barcode is the sequence or genomic region used as the ...

Rot development during fruit storage is a problem. Now, metabarcoding may become a tool for detecting fungi that can cause diseases in apples. Many types of fungi can cause rot in apples, both before ...