In short, fungi eat death, and in doing so, create new life. Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web ...

Such fungi will extend their long hyphae into openings in the wood—insect tunnels or water-transporting plant tissue—or forge their own pathways. White-rot fungi release aggressive enzymes ...

Tests with other organisms showed that the method can even replicate the root structure of fungi, called hyphae. "Hyphae are even thinner and can be as small as 1-2 μm in diameter. That's thinner ...

Norio Takeshita of the University of Tsukuba in Japan approached the question by growing seven species of fungi in a microfluidic device with tiny channels, the narrowest just 1 micrometer ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building ... minimizing the cost of the network structure. A minimal network of hyphae would connect a soil area to a plant host with the fewest hyphae ...

2. The two hundred new diseases which resulted ... Different combinations of hosts and fungi resulted in the formation of different kinds of callosities. 9. Penetration hyphae usually entered vertical ...

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 ...