Filamentous fungi play a pivotal role in industrial biotechnology, where their complex morphology directly influences fermentation performance and product yields. The dynamic nature of their hyphal ...

A team of scientists has discovered the remains of a fungi-like microfossil that emerged at the end of an ice age some 635 million years ago. When you think of fungi, what comes to mind may be a ...

A genus of fungi previously considered a parasite of fungi associated with ants may actually have much more complex ...

A new software tool called Fungal Feature Tracker could accelerate understanding of fungal morphology and growth. Guillermo Vidal-Diez de Ulzurrun and colleagues in the laboratory led by Yen-Ping ...

A new edition of the definitive practical resource for laboratory identification of fungal infections is now available. "The fully revised Medically Important Fungi: A Guide to Identification, 5th ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Though they aren't as charismatic as a red and white fly agaric mushroom, ...

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 ...

A genus of fungi previously considered a parasite of fungi associated with ants may actually have much more complex ecological functions. According to ...

If you want to discover a hidden world of new life-forms, you don’t have to scour dark caves or slog through remote rainforests. Just look under your feet. When then-graduate student Anna Rosling went ...

When Italian botanist Giuseppe Inzenga first tasted the white ferula mushroom in 1863, he described it as one of the tastiest he had ever had. Once found in just 38 square miles on Sicily’s Madonie ...