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In ecosystems around the world, fungi play crucial roles in supporting plant life. Their ability to form connections between plant roots can enhance water and nutrient uptake and promote plant growth. While fungal symbioses ...
Many soil microbes play a vital role in ecosystems, as they help plants access nutrients and water and assist in stress tolerance, such as during drought, and to defend against pathogens.
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have successfully revived fungal specimens collected over 80 years ago, offering a fresh glimpse into how industrial agriculture has altered the invisible ecosystems that ...
Using more than 2.8 billion fungal sequences sampled from 130 countries, scientists map the biodiversity of Earth's underground mycorrhizal fungal communities.
New research in Plants, People, Planet indicates that bread wheat's micronutrient content can be increased by cultivating it with a specific type of fungus.
Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home from mushroom kits.
The cordyceps species in "The Last of Us," Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is real and does exactly what the show purports —just not in humans, according to medical experts.
Fungi are increasingly resistant to antifungals, and the variation in resistance has significantly increased. This is evident from the analysis of more than 12,000 lung samples collected over 30 years in Dutch hospitals. ...
Rainfall can have dramatic effects on the microbial communities living in urban lakes, a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology reveals.
If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, you're walking over a vast underground patchwork of fungal filaments, supporting life above ground.
