A Scottish company is helping to regrow forests with specially-made mushroom pellets, using the “superpowers” of fungi. Teams ...

A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...

Most plant pathogens are specific to plants and do not pose a threat to human health, even if produce appears diseased. However, rare exceptions exist where certain bacteria or fungi can infect humans ...

Although considered a vegetable sometimes, mushrooms are a type of fungus. In a way, mushrooms are like the fruit of a plant. Instead of producing seeds, the mushroom fungus releases millions of ...

Getting to The Cedars, an ecological preserve in California’s Sonoma county, is a slog. Multiple rivers and creeks must be ...

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of fungi—and easy to understate how little we know about them. Scientists have described a little over 100,000 different species, while estimating that there ...

Arbuscular mycorrhiza is the most common form of symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant. The fungal hyphae penetrate plant cells and develop branching morphological ...

GSK3 promotes trehalose biosynthesis by phosphorylating TPS at Ser-529, thereby regulating the mycelial growth and response to high temperatures. Elucidating the genetic basis of aneuploid phenotypes ...

Some of the earliest plants attracted pollinators by producing heat that made these plants glow with infrared light, according to a new set of experiments. The work, published in the journal Science, ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Fungal foot infections like athlete's foot and onychomycosis (toenail fungus) are often treated with topical or oral antifungals, but they can be persistent and spread easily. Bacterial foot ...

Classical conditioning is a way to learn using unconscious associations. Pavlov discovered classical conditioning when dogs started to salivate at the sound of a bell before they got food. The ...