A group of scientists in Brazil and the United States has revealed the role played by certain structures in intermediating communication among individual fungi of the same species. The discovery, ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even possible ...

Mycorrhizal fungi form mutualistic associations with the majority of terrestrial plants, extending their hyphal networks into soil matrices and orchestrating fundamental modifications to soil ...

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life Our planet’s soils contain enough of the subterranean fungi that sustain plant life and ...

When you say “fungi,” most people think of mushrooms, showy fruiting bodies, but most fungi do not produce mushrooms. It is estimated that there are approximately 3 to 13 million fungal species on ...

Moss is usually thought of as one of nature's simplest plants. It carpets rocks, clings to tree trunks and quietly survives ...