Though no one may be around to hear when a tree falls in the forest, countless critters take note. Dormant fungi within the tree awaken to feast on it, joined by others that creep up from the soil.

Curious? We were, too! Known in German as glcklicher pilz or gluckspilz (which literally means “lucky mushroom”), the red-and ...

Using clustered regulatory interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR), the team overexpressed two genes: one that produced ergothioneine, an antioxidant found in fungi, and one that coded for heme, a ...

For Teresa Iturriaga, the curator of CUP, fascination with these tiny mushrooms began during her doctoral studies in mycology ...