By Shreya Dasgupta Researchers have for the first time assessed the extinction risk of soil-dependent animals, invertebrates ...

A new study--which includes the first large-scale comparison of fungi that cause rot decay--suggests that the evolution of a type of fungi known as white rot may have brought an end to a ...

Native soil fungi, in addition to native plants and trees, are both essential for restoring forests on islands like Palmyra ...

Lund University. Palmyra Atoll is a remote and uninhabited cluster of small islands halfway between Hawaii and Samoa.

An international research team has found that many fungal effector proteins, which weaken plant immune systems, evolved from ancient antimicrobial molecules originally used to compete with other ...

Truffles were introduced to Australia 25 years ago, when the first host trees with T. melanosporum spores were planted there.

Fungi (black) present in human lung cancer tissue (turquoise) but not inside the cells.Lian Narunsky Haziza and Nancy Gavert Cancer tumors contain multiple species of fungi that differ per tumor type, ...

A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the fungal component of the human microbiome - known as the mycobiome - and ...

The evolution of white rot fungi might have helped bring an end to the geologic period characterized by the formation of large coal deposits, and may help lay the groundwork for the future production ...