Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – ...

Find out the dirt on soil’s drama. In just one teaspoon of soil, there can be more microbes than there are people on the planet. That’s before you even count the miles of fungal hyphae also living ...

plants become reliant on interactions with mycorrhizal fungi for phosphorus acquisition. Mycorrhizal spores present in the soil are germinated by compounds released from the plant. Hyphae extend ...

The Waltham Public Library hosted naturalist Jonathan Kranz, who led a small audience through the joys and practicalities of foraging for mushrooms in New England.

These fungi do not form the classic mushroom fruiting bodies that we know from forests and in some cases like to eat. They form an extensive network of fine threads, also known as hyphae, that ...

Over time, our industry has come to better appreciate water. Water availability and the cost of water are now regular topics ...

Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what would become soil ... Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees ...

In just one cubic centimeter of soil, the hyphae of the fungi can reach a length of up to 100 meters. While many fungi break down dead material in the soil, there are specialized species that live ...

The team developed a "soil" medium using nanoparticles of glass ... "And what better example of microfluidics in nature than plant roots and fungal hyphae? So, we set out to develop a method ...

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 secret life of fungi unfolds underground where hyphae form spindly threads of mycelium ... visible connections that could ...