An unprecedented number of diseases caused by fungi have been causing some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species and jeopardizing crops to boot, scientists now ...
Truffles are the spore-bearing fruiting bodies of subterranean ascomycete fungi across dozens of genera in the Pezizales order. Whether truffles are mushrooms depends on your mycological definition.
The class Eurotiomycetes (Ascomycota, Pezizomycotina) is a monophyletic group comprising two major clades of very different ascomycetous fungi: (i) the subclass Eurotiomycetidae, a clade that contains ...
An unprecedented number of diseases caused by fungi have been causing some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species and jeopardizing crops to boot, scientists now ...
Researchers have discovered that an Ascomycete fungus that is common in polluted water produces environmentally important minerals during asexual reproduction. The key chemical in the process, ...
American Journal of Botany, Vol. 85, No. 11 (Nov., 1998), pp. 1569-1580 (12 pages) A phylogenetic study of marine ascomycetes was initiated to test and refine evolutionary hypotheses of ...
image: Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a fungus parasitizing an ant, and the fossil also represents a new fungal genus and species. A mushroom is the ...