A culture collection of more than 500 fungal strains from seawater, sediments and seaweeds is helping scientists better ...

Bacterial and fungal spores float out in the stratosphere, yet they are capable of falling back to Earth where they can ...

Most plants form beneficial relationships with belowground mycorrhizal fungi that help them access soil nutrients in exchange ...

The innovation centers on a fungus called Metarhizium pingshaense, long known for its ability to kill insects. But scientists ...

Longan (Dimocarpus longan) is related to lychee. While the peel of lychee is pinkish-red and bumpy, that of the longan is ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues ...

Longer hospital stays and weakened immune systems is driving the spread of a killer fungus that poses a serious threat to humanity, experts have warned.

When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two ...

fungi and bacteria (Smithsonian, July 1991). Slime molds are like nothing else on earth. In their plasmodium stage, they show a quality that could be called intelligence: chopped up and dropped ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Some 279 fungi species face extinction due to land use change for farming and urbanization, while another 91 species are at risk from ...

mRNA is a genetic molecule occurring in multicellular organisms, including plants, animals and fungi. It acts as a ... where the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite travels after it enters the ...

Marine fungi, thriving in ocean environments, account for 5% of total ocean biomass but most are microscopic. Researchers have limited understanding of their diversity and importance. There are ...