Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are ...

Fungi can keep us healthy or cause disease. As climate change drives fungi to adapt, their impact on our health is changing.

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 example, aphids living on the trees may ... Some of these organisms, mostly bacteria or fungi, make the plants sick, while others have no harmful effect on the plants or are even beneficial.

Living tissue, for example, has evolved all sorts of ways ... Mishra has turned to fungal tissue. Fungi aren’t plants, but Mishra is interested in one of fungi’s most plantlike features ...

Right under our feet, hidden in the ground, there is a complex network of relationships: almost all plants live in close symbiosis with fungi. These fungi do not form the classic mushroom fruiting ...

Humans have consumed hallucinogenic fungi and plants for thousands of years. Many of these compounds share a common chemical structure with one another and with neurotransmitters widely produced by ...

For example, the misconception that fungi are plants is something that still persists to this day. Allowing this misconception to continue being perpetuated is harmful to the field of mycology ...