Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – ...

Much of a filamentous fungus’s life involves infiltrating organic tissue: weaving its hyphae between cells in decaying animals, for example, or, in the case of some pathogenic species, invading plants ...

Antifungal drugs target molecules in the fungal cell wall, a flexible but rigid outer ... branching structures called hyphae deep into lung tissue. Although drugs or surgery can alleviate an ...

The Waltham Public Library hosted naturalist Jonathan Kranz, who led a small audience through the joys and practicalities of foraging for mushrooms in New England.

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

But they’re actually spore-producing filaments, growing from a tangle of fibers called hyphae, of a mushroom called scarlet cup fungus. This fungus is known for its bright red, cup-shaped fruiting ...

8. Different combinations of hosts and fungi resulted in the formation of different kinds of callosities. 9. Penetration hyphae usually entered vertical cell walls. 10. In tube cultures, epidermal ...

Arbuscular mycorrhiza is a particularly intimate form of symbiosis in which the plant allows the hyphae of the fungus access into its roots and even its cells. Over the course of evolution ...