Fungi are under threat as their habitats are polluted and destroyed. Hundreds of species of fungi have now been added to the latest conservation Red List, but very little is known about millions of ...

The paper S. Fukuda et al., “Trade-off between plasticity and velocity in mycelial growth,” mBio, 12:e03196–20, 2021. Much of a filamentous fungus’s life involves infiltrating organic tissue: weaving ...

A type of fungus which grows on caterpillars can slow down growth of cancer cells, new research has found. Cordycepin, a chemical produced by a parasitic fungus that infects the animals, interacts ...

A farmer sprays nitrate fertiliser on his land around a lake. Can you put these steps in order to describe how the fish and other organisms in the lake could be killed as a result of his actions?