Mycelium is the fabric of fungal populations: fungi produce thread-like roots called hyphae, which branch and fuse with one ... a team at the National University of Singapore has discovered their ...

“Ultimately, fungi helped plants move away from being these marginal tiny little things on the water’s edge into large forests and ... create new life. Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects ...

This is an image of the hyphae, or threads, and fruiting bodies of an Aspergillus fungus. The tubelike branching structures are the hyphae (1), which make up the mycelium that is the main “body” of a ...

If so, you undoubtedly wondered why the mushrooms would grow in this way, especially if the circle was quite large ... are called hyphae, which make up the mycelia of the fungi.

Similarly, Cordyceps gunnii attacks caterpillars such as large "ghost" caterpillars ... they are buried in the soil. The ...

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The fungi colonize plant roots and help them absorb nutrients. In return, plants ...

The paradigmatic view of fungal growth is that vegetative hyphae grow only through division and expansion at the hyphal tip. However, this model cannot adequately explain how endophytes within the ...

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 ...

Fungal stains highlight the fungal hyphae. The pathologist must closely examine the specimen to rule out mucosal or bony invasion. Fifty-five patients have been treated at our institution with AFS.