Beneath the quiet shade of towering trees, a secret world pulses with life, invisible to the casual hiker and even seasoned ...

Unlike organic waste, plastics can take hundreds of years to decompose-and sometimes, they never do. Yet, a silent savior may ...

A new study suggests that plants deceive their neighbors using fungi, faking warning signals in order to compete.

The fungus then uses proteases to digest nematodes that get stuck in its hyphae. A. oligospora has over 400 genes that encode proteins that control its interactions with other organisms.

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern ...

Filaments of fungi intertwine with the tips of tree roots to form underground networks that seem to benefit both organisms: the filaments, called hyphae, break down minerals in the soil that trees ...

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 ...

Networks of mycelium, made up of thin, thread-like strands called hyphae, can be extraordinarily vast—in fact, the largest organism on Earth is a fungus known colloquially as the Humongous Fungus.

Some can cause fungal infections in humans, using open wounds or the lungs as an entry point to the body. And certain species produce mycotoxins, such as aflatoxins, which are both poisonous and ...

“Bringing your own nail polish can reduce chances of fungal nail transmission — fungal hyphae can live in between the bristles of the brush,” she said.

The glass vasculatures shown here is a combination of larger ryegrass root with the symbiosis of the mycorrhizal fungi hyphae. This demonstrates that different scales of channels can be formed in ...

Endosymbionts use effector proteins to hijack their fungal host’s ability to produce spores. When the researchers replaced the endosymbiotic bacteria from the fungus with the mutant versions, they ...