A new multi-institutional study led by researchers at Michigan State University has characterized how fungi adapt to restructure their cell walls, effectively thwarting current antifungal medications.

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day.

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

The tips of these fungi grow by synthesizing new cell wall on the extending side, but scientists have puzzled over how they control growth through such tight spaces. Norio Takeshita of the University ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

plants and fungi. Size Most are 5 μm - 100 μm. Most are 0.2 μm - 2.0 μm. Outer layers of cell Cell membrane, surrounded by cell wall in plants and fungi. Cell membrane, surrounded by cell wall.