Fungicides enhance native plant survival and community productivity but reduce diversity, finds study

Fungicides enhance native plant survival and community productivity but reduce diversity, finds study

In a study published in the New Phytologist, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences synthesized decades of research on fungicides through a global meta-analysis, and they revealed the complex and varied effects of fungicides on wild plant at species and community levels.