Three examples of the obstacle courses we tested our fungi within. Credit: Author provided When you think of fungi, you'll probably picture a huddle of chubby brown mushrooms, or the large, red-capped ...

In the previous article, we discussed "AM fungi (endomycorrhizal fungi)," which penetrate plant cells to form a symbiotic relationship. Following this, I would like to touch upon "ectomycorrhizal ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope, these organisms are essential to our ...

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If you go to the Internet and look up “snake oil” you will find the following definition from the source Wikipedia: “Snake oil is an expression that originally referred to fraudulent health products ...

Fungi are living organisms that support the ecosystem of the entire planet. Most people associate mushrooms with fungi, but in reality, mushrooms merely make up the ‘flower’ portion of some species of ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Even if you don’t know what the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List is off the top of your head, I ...

In 1999, Giuliana Furci developed a profound interest in fungi. They were everywhere, and the 20-year-old took particular joy in the multiformity of mushrooms: small and button-shaped; tall and ...

Fungi are ubiquitous in nature. No one really knows how many species of fungi there are – one estimate is between 2.2m and 3.8m – and of those species only 120,000 have been documented. Fungi and ...

When you think of fungi, you’ll probably picture a huddle of chubby brown mushrooms, or the large, red-capped toadstools you stumble across in the woods. In doing so, you’re reducing fungi to their ...