Where is the optimal payoff? This analysis shapes how the networks expand, as scientists learned when they mapped the growth in real-time. “Fungi are super clever,” said Toby Kiers ...

Using automated-imaging techniques, including recorded videos, the authors quantified the growth of mycelial networks. They tracked more than 500,000 growing fungal tips and branches and measured ...

Most orchid species have a symbiotic relationship with the natural fungi found in their roots. The plants provide the fungi with sugar through photosynthesis and the orchids receive important water ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...