Fungal networks in the ground ferry crucial nutrients to plants. But how do brainless organisms form complex supply chain networks?

The idea of mixing mushrooms and coffee may seem repugnant to some people, but mushroom coffee has become a booming business in recent years with a variety of blends proliferating in supermarkets ...

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Because of their short generation times and large population sizes, fungi can evolve rapidly. FpnA, an Aspergillus fumigatus homolog of the human iron transporter ferroportin showed no iron efflux ...

Scientists use high-tech robots to uncover the hidden architecture of mycorrhizal networks, revealing how fungi optimize ...

Plant pathogenic fungi can be classified as biotrophic, necrotrophic or hemibiotrophic, depending on their host interaction for their nutrition. Necrotrophic fungi kill host plant cells and use the ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — The discovery of a powerful 'weapon' used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could offer new strategies to ...

I am the Priority Leader of Trait Diversity and Function, the Science Priority studying plant and fungal traits, to aid conservation, increase resilience to global change, and explore potential uses ...