Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are ...

The club resumes its regular bi-weekly Monday meetings from 6-8 p.m. in the spring. To kick off the quarter, the student organization will host a screening of “Fantastic Fungi” in hopes that other ...

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 ...

For Teresa Iturriaga, the curator of CUP, fascination with these tiny mushrooms began during her doctoral studies in mycology ...

Nico De Napoli, 13 of Coarsegold holds up a mushroom he found that remarkably matches his shirt (minus the toad) while hunting for mushrooms on a Sierra Foothill Conservancy mycology hike on the ...

Fungal networks in the ground ferry crucial nutrients to plants. But how do brainless organisms form complex supply chain networks?

"Mushrooms are not plants," said Amy Honan, who teaches mycology and fungal ecology at Oregon State University. "Fungi are ...

As part of a local mycology club, they hunt for morels ... But beyond her taste for the fungus, Junier has a scientific interest in morels. She is a trained bacteriologist, but she works side by side ...

Fungi (including lichen-forming fungi) and bryophytes constitute a major component across most ecosystems on Earth. With a known species diversity of 120 000 fungi and 20 000 of bryophytes, the impact ...

A unique fungus that makes diesel compounds directly from cellulose has been discovered living in trees in the Patagonian rainforest. “These are the first organisms that have been found that ...