DURHAM, NC -- Biologists have disco...

DURHAM, NC -- Biologists have discovered a recent ecological relationship between cacao tree and the fungi that inhabit them, in which the tree are shielded by armies of "good" fungi pitted against their "evil" counterparts.
Duke University researchers say the discovery proffers potential for enlisting as it is fungal armies to protect the tree from pathogens.
At field trials in Panama, spores of local endophytes ("good" fungi that infect healthy plant tissues without causing disease) are being grown and sprayed onward cacao plants in an