Plants and animals. Flora and fauna. While these phrases are familiar, they don't contain another kingdom of organisms crucial to local habitats. These life-forms are neither plants nor animals.

Fungi don’t get the respect they deserve. Maybe that’s because they do most of their work in the dark, beneath the ground or on dead matter, or because there’s something essentially alien and ...

Fungus can do a lot for us — make bread, make beer and cure infections, in the case of penicillin. But when the fungus infects us, well, that’s not nearly as much fun as beer. From your head to your ...

Scientists have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity. Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the ...

A large crowd sprouted up around mycologist Christin Swearingen under the Ester Park pavilion Sunday morning and an array of different mushrooms. Questions flew about the different fungi, whether they ...

The research reports different types of tumors seem to harbor unique fungal populations, raising the possibility of new ways to diagnose and treat cancer. There are trillions of microorganisms living ...

Rot development during fruit storage is a problem. Now, metabarcoding may become a tool for detecting fungi that can cause ...