However, the phylum Basidiomycota – which includes all mushrooms and numerous other fungi ... The basic details of how Basidiomycota launch spores were first worked out in the early 20th century, by ...

High-speed video has revealed that the incredible variety of fantastic forms taken by fungal spores helps them catapult themselves into the air. For hundreds of years, scientists have described ...

Since Cryptococcus, like most club fungi (Basidiomycota), must mate to produce airborne spores, researchers have been faced with a mystery. "The unusual thing about C. neoformans and C. gattii is for ...

all belonging to the division Basidiomycota and having their own unique characteristics. A quirky trait they all share is that they do not grow an open cap with spore-bearing gills; instead ...

Resolving the phylogeny of the basal groups of the Fungi and their relationships to Ascomycota and Basidiomycota is necessary ... aquatic and lacked aerial spore dispersal. The loss of flagellated ...

These organisms disperse billions or even trillions of spores so that enough land in a suitable environment for them to reproduce. However, the phylum Basidiomycota – which includes all mushrooms and ...

comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, ...