Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize. Researchers in the UK have suggested ...

1 State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, ...

A state-funded survey has sampled and collected fungi species from across California, identifying hundreds of new-to-science species. It’s part of a statewide effort to protect biodiversity, which has ...

A new study has uncovered how a surprising player in the immune system, eosinophils, best known for their role in allergies and asthma, also helps protect the body against Candida albicans, one of the ...

Raising groundwater levels and adding biochar to agricultural peat soils could dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining healthy crop production, according to a new study from Bangor ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of phytopathogenic fungus, Paramyrothecium strychni (Ascomycota, Stachybotryaceae), associated with an emerging leaf spots and blights disease of Strychnos ...

A fungus (plural: fungi) is a type of eukaryotic organism belonging to the kingdom Fungi, alongside plants, animals, protozoa, and monera. Fungi are incredibly diverse, with commonly encountered forms ...

Rhytismatales M.E. Barr ex Minter (Leotiomycetes, Ascomycota) is an order mostly consists of plant-associated ascomycetes, some of its members are plant pathogens that can cause significant economic ...

ABSTRACT: A new powdery mildew fungus named Erysiphe euonymicola was discovered in the mycobiota of Uzbekistan as a result of a mycological study conducted in the city of Samarkand. This fungus was ...

If you’re an avid forager or fan of mycology, you may have noticed inconsistencies in how mycologists, mushroom hunters, field guides, and scientific literature describe truffles. Some may classify ...

If you’re starting to learn about mycology, you may be quite astounded by the varying types of mushrooms that exist across the world. The diversity of mushroom species is quite impressive and you may ...

ABSTRACT: A teleomorph of the fungus Botryosphaeria rhodina (Berkeley et Curtis) von Arx, (Br) was evaluated as a bioherbicide for control of giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta D.S. Mitchell) under ...