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 ...

The secret life of fungi unfolds underground where hyphae form spindly threads of mycelium that stretch out like vast ...

These fungi do not form the classic mushroom fruiting bodies that we know from forests and in some cases like to eat. They ...

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 ...

8. Different combinations of hosts and fungi resulted in the formation of different kinds of callosities. 9. Penetration hyphae usually entered vertical cell walls. 10. In tube cultures, epidermal ...