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

Climate change may be putting millions more people at risk from an infection-causing fungi, which is likely spreading due to ...

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

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 ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even ...

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 ...

Shandong researchers suggest that edible and medicinal fungi contain bioactive components with therapeutic potential for central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Findings offer evidence for the ...

The proliferation of new fungicides in the U.S. agricultural sector may be raising resistance to critical antifungal medications in humans and animals, infectious disease experts are warning.

Friend or foe? Ancient partnership between moss and fungi Study could have impact on food supply and future space exploration Date: February 7, 2024 Source: Michigan State University Summary ...

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