The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change. Though invisible on the surface of the desert, ...

What spoils our crops, kills about six times more people than malaria every year and is breathed in by each of us every single day? It’s not a virus or bacteria, but something even more formidable: ...

Jessica Allen crunched through fallen leaves among Manzanita trees hunting for something few have spotted before: the Manzanita butter clump — a rare and little-known yellow mushroom found, so far, ...

Agarikon is one of two endangered species of fungi in the United States. So rare is the species that scientists have placed ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...

A new study from Kiel University shows how the massive exchange of mobile genetic elements between fungi can impair their ...

Credit: Boris Vinatzer Fungi may hold a little-known key to ice formation in clouds. Can fungi affect the weather? It may ...