Its huge flowering structure (the spadix) can be up to three metres in height ... The wonderfully named stinkhorn fungi genus ...

In the soil, plant roots engage with fungi in a silent molecular "language" to direct their structure ... Molecular Cell (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.09.004 ...

The Earth BioGenome Project seeks to genetically profile over a million plants, animals, and fungi as they build an atlas of ...

Specifically, his team uses filamentous fungi—molds and mushrooms—as a platform to address these goals and transform food ...

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...

It’s a kind of fuzzy fungi that can be hazardous to your health ... It’s just about as flawed as the old “five-second rule”. ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours. The ...

Is a zombie apocalypse caused by fungi, like the Cordyceps from “The Last of Us,” something that could realistically happen? – Jupiter, age 15, Ithaca, New York Zombies strike fear into our ...

Fungi have a nasty reputation among humans. They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have cracked the code of plant-to-fungi communication in a new study published in the journal Molecular Cell. Using baker’s yeast, the researchers ...