In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what would become soil. In the Late Ordovician era, they formed a symbiotic ...

This broke apart the soil's structure so he could see everything holding it together, like the dark brown curl of fungi. "This is what a really good, healthy fungi strand looks like," he says.

Homeowners are warned about the dangers of honey fungus, a parasitic infection that can devastate trees and shrubs in domestic gardens. The fungus, scientifically known as Armillaria, attacks and ...

Mycorrhizae (from the Greek words for fungus and root) is a general term describing a symbiotic relationship between a soil fungus and plant root. Unlike rhizobia and their legume partners ...

Fruiting fungi that appear on growing substrates of potted plants are generally no cause for concern. They appear due to the ...

Unlike us humans, the soil fungus Mortierella alpina has long known a natural trick against nematodes: it produces special molecules that make life difficult for its predators. These surface ...

The Ophiocordyceps sinensis – colloquially called caterpillar fungus or “Himalayan gold” – it can fetch astronomical prices ...

Fungus gnats are small black flies, also known as sciarid flies, mushroom flies and mycetophilids. They are a very common pest, especially when plants are grown in pots of soil-free compost. In fact, ...

The environment is suffering, too. With so many people hunting for the fungus, they're damaging the delicate mountain soil, cutting down trees for firewood and leaving trash at their camps.