Most orchid species have a symbiotic relationship with the natural fungi found in their roots. The plants provide the fungi ...

Boulder Mushroom is researching fungi's ability to decompose wildfire fuels like fallen trees and dead grass that can ignite ...

Bacteria pitch in, some sliding along strands of fungi to get deeper into the log. Termites alert their colony mates, which ...

Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web — transporting nutrients and sending danger signals. Otzi, the 45,000-year ...

In a small pond near the waterfall, she found a fungus growing on a submerged piece of wood. New findings reveal that molecules produced by this fungus showed antimicrobial activity against ...

"Fungi possess a superpower for eating things that other organisms can't digest (like wood, or chitin), so we tested the fungi in our collection for their ability to digest plastic," said Anthony ...

But appropriate fungi only occur when there is fallen wood and only in certain stages of the decomposition process. In other words, the orchids become parasitic only when they can, not whenever they ...