The paradigmatic view of fungal growth is that vegetative hyphae grow only through division and expansion at the hyphal tip. However, this model cannot adequately explain how endophytes within the ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building ... minimizing the cost of the network structure. A minimal network of hyphae would connect a soil area to a plant host with the fewest hyphae ...

Mechanically sensitive proteins called gellins sense and respond to protoplasm flowing out of severed hyphae, quickly sealing up injuries in these root-like structures of fungi. Viviane was a ...

The hyphae of water molds—fungus-like pathogens that cause blight in crops—are particularly pointy. "A major challenge in ...

The secret life of fungi unfolds underground where hyphae form spindly threads of mycelium that stretch out like vast ...