Mold is a fungus, like mushrooms. And it's made up of thousands of threadlike filaments called hyphae. It uses those filaments like roots: to feed. Hyphae extend into your stale bread or rotten ...

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 ...

While some fungal species separate their filaments into compartments with septal walls that ... When a hyphal filament is injured, the pressurized liquid protoplasm inside the hyphae gushes out.

The paradigmatic view of fungal growth is that vegetative hyphae grow only through division ... This work challenges the long-held assumption that filamentous fungi grow exclusively at hyphal ...

The "ascogenous hyphae" arise as a clearly differentiated subhymenial complex of filaments. From this layer grow out vertical branches whose end cells contain usually two nuclei. Hooks are formed by ...