Japanese researchers found slime mold secretes organic compounds that repel parasitic nematodes from plant roots without ...

The vomit slime mold — let’s call it Fuligo — is the one you are most likely to notice, especially on mulch. Many other slime molds are quite small, but you might see them on very damp, well-decayed ...

The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum is a soil microbe that produces diverse natural products with potential ...

Physarum polycephalum is a complex single-cell organism that has no nervous system. It can learn and transfer its knowledge to its fellow slime moulds via fusion. How it did so was a mystery.

Even slime moulds have ‘brains’: a series of tubes that expand and contract to provide a memory of where food is located. Slime moulds (Physarum polycephalum) are single-celled organisms that can ...

Like all slime molds, Physarum polycephalum has no brain or nervous system—yet it somehow “remembers” food sites for future reference. In a new paper, biophysicists Mirna Kramar and Karen Alim of the ...

New, less toxic control methods are needed to prevent the loss of crops and soil fertility to RKNs. Cellular slime mold (Dictyostelium discoideum) is a soil-dwelling microorganism known for its ...