There, during a year-long fellowship, Kiers learned about a type of fungi known as mycorrhizae that formed intimate ...

Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research reveals that some fungi nuclei only contain half.

A group of scientists are investigating the possibility that marine fungi could be used to break down polyurethane.

They are fungi. Examples include mushrooms, molds and yeasts. Flip through any mushroom field guide and you'll see astonishing varieties of shapes, sizes, colors and textures.

In a slow, invisible process, leaves, wood and roots are gradually decomposed—not by wind or weather, but by millions and millions of tiny organisms.

Most orchids live in a symbiotic relationship with fungi in their roots: The plants provide sugar they produce through photosynthesis and in return receive water and minerals from the fungi ...

The researchers detected fungi in 35 types of cancer, and most fungi were intracellular within cancer and immune cells, analogous to intratumoral bacteria.

It is now evident that entomopathogenic fungi are able to colonize plant tissues as symptomless endophytes. Although most data so far published in this regard refer to Beauveria bassiana as an ...

A experimental antibiotic can kill dangerous drug-resistant fungi that are spreading around the world, Chinese researchers reported in Nature.