Fungi are difficult to study in both nature and under experimental conditions. This is because of many species’ microscopic size, their short lifespan and the hidden habitats they call home — such as ...

They found that certain strains of the Fusarium oxysporum fungus were capable of metabolizing gold. This ability not only ...

A new study claims that Prototaxites, which have defied classification for two centuries, might just be an entirely novel ...

Fungal biology is the scientific discipline that concerns the biology of fungi, which include unicellular microorganisms as well as large multicellular organisms. Fungal biology is sometimes ...

American Journal of Botany Vol. 12, No. 9, Nov., 1925 The Biology and Pathology of Some of the... The Biology and Pathology of Some of the Hardwood Heart-Rotting Fungi This is the metadata section.

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

A key priority to better integrate fungi into conservation biology is to accumulate data on species diversity. But in order to accumulate data and understand how we can better protect fungal ...

While scientists have long suspected that certain species of fungi have thousands or even tens of thousands of biological sexes, the new research employed cutting edge genetic tools to confirm the ...

Although fungi of the genus Piloderma are common ... The discoveries, published in Fungal Biology, show that diversity in this genus is much greater than previously thought and that some of ...

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"More and more research shows that plants contain fungi or bacteria, called endophytes, with which they live in symbiosis. These endophytes are, in a way, the microbiota of plants," explains one of ...