The biology major recently made the trip up to Augusta for the Maine Sustainability and Water Conference and came home with ...

Forests seem sturdy and solid from the outside, but there might be something happening silently underneath. Some fungi can ...

The ground beneath your feet may be carrying on a kind of conversation. Research into fungal electrical signaling has found that underground networks of fungi generate patterns bearing a striking ...

Mycology is the branch of biological sciences dedicated to the study of fungi, including true fungi (kingdom Fungi) and traditionally associated fungal-like organisms. It encompasses the taxonomy, ...

The FDA approval of the biologic drug Dupixent for allergic fungal rhinosinusitis may help patients living with this challenging condition and help them avoid repeat surgeries. The U.S. Food and Drug ...

Fungi play a dual role as indispensable ecological engineers and as major agents of disease in humans, animals, and plants. Recent estimates highlight their substantial impact, with millions of ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A cluster of brown-capped mushrooms growing out of bark mulch in a garden. - Christina Dutkowski/Shutterstock Having a few wild ...

Many soil microbes play a vital role in ecosystems, as they help plants access nutrients and water and assist in stress tolerance, such as during drought, and to defend against pathogens. A fungus's ...

Global distribution of 3,500+ study sites used in the analysis of AM fungal spore traits across diverse biomes. Many soil microbes play a vital role in ecosystems, as they help plants access nutrients ...

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet. By Emily Anthes The world’s biological riches are not evenly distributed.

In the soils of most ecosystems around the world, mycorrhizal fungal communities form intimate relationships with the roots of the plants above them, exchanging nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen ...