This is an image of the hyphae, or threads, and fruiting bodies of an Aspergillus fungus. The tubelike branching structures are the hyphae (1), which make up the mycelium that is the main “body” of a ...

How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi ...

But they’re actually spore-producing filaments, growing from a tangle of fibers called hyphae, of a mushroom called scarlet cup fungus. This fungus is known for its bright red, cup-shaped fruiting ...

In short, fungi eat death, and in doing so, create new life. Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building ... minimizing the cost of the network structure. A minimal network of hyphae would connect a soil area to a plant host with the fewest hyphae ...

However, hyphae come in different shapes: some have rounded tips, while others are pointed. Water molds, which are ...

The hyphae of water molds—fungus-like pathogens that cause blight in crops—are particularly pointy. "A major challenge in ...

These fungi do not form the classic mushroom fruiting bodies that we know from forests and in some cases like to eat. They form an extensive network of fine threads, also known as hyphae, that ...

Mechanically sensitive proteins called gellins sense and respond to protoplasm flowing out of severed hyphae, quickly sealing up injuries in these root-like structures of fungi. Viviane was a ...

Much of a filamentous fungus’s life involves infiltrating organic tissue: weaving its hyphae between cells in decaying animals, for example, or, in the case of some pathogenic species, invading plants ...

Mycorrhizal fungi build vast networks in the soil to exchange nutrients with the roots of plants. Much of these dense networks consist of extremely fine tubes called hyphae, which can reach ...