The club resumes its regular bi-weekly Monday meetings from 6-8 p.m. in the spring. To kick off the quarter, the student ...

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

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

For Teresa Iturriaga, the curator of CUP, fascination with these tiny mushrooms began during her doctoral studies in mycology ...

The study of Mycology and Forest Pathology provides opportunity in a broad range of specialties fundamental to the understanding of fungi and their interaction with other organisms, and for ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are the supply chains of the soil. With filaments thinner than hair, they shuttle vital nutrients to plants and tree roots. In return, the fungi receive carbon to grow their ...

Nico De Napoli, 13 of Coarsegold holds up a mushroom he found that remarkably matches his shirt (minus the toad) while hunting for mushrooms on a Sierra Foothill Conservancy mycology hike on the ...

While scientists have long suspected that certain species of fungi have thousands or even tens of thousands of biological sexes, the new research employed cutting edge genetic tools to confirm the ...

"Mushrooms are not plants," said Amy Honan, who teaches mycology and fungal ecology at Oregon State University. "Fungi are ...

Fungi (including lichen-forming fungi) and bryophytes constitute a major component across most ecosystems on Earth. With a known species diversity of 120 000 fungi and 20 000 of bryophytes, the impact ...