White-rot fungi have the ability to naturally break down plastic waste, providing a long-term remedy for one of the most ...

By Mongabay.com Often hidden from view, fungi are critical part of our ecosystems. Some can be eaten as mushrooms; others help trees and forests thrive. But that’s not all: they’re also helping us ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium.

Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using mechanical structures and likely relied on non-beetle insects for spore ...

Filaments of fungi intertwine with the tips of tree roots to form underground networks that seem to benefit both organisms: the filaments, called hyphae, break down minerals in the soil that trees ...

The fungus then uses proteases to digest nematodes that get stuck in its hyphae. A. oligospora has over 400 genes that encode proteins that control its interactions with other organisms .

In just one cubic centimeter of soil, the hyphae of the fungi can reach a length of up to 100 meters. While many fungi break ...

Hyphae curl from their mouths, then spread across crumbling, abandoned cities. I hate zombies but adore fungi, and eventually, the latter instinct won out: I started watching with a friend (to ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern ...

Networks of mycelium, made up of thin, thread-like strands called hyphae, can be extraordinarily vast—in fact, the largest organism on Earth is a fungus known colloquially as the Humongous Fungus.

On the hyphae are hanging balls, known as toxocysts, that contain the 3-octanone. When the fungus kills its prey, the hyphae suck out whatever is inside the nematode’s body.