When you think of improving the soil, you may imagine planting cover crops or utilizing minimal tillage systems that allow ...

Beneath the quiet shade of towering trees, a secret world pulses with life, invisible to the casual hiker and even seasoned ...

Unlike plants, fungi have no chlorophyll and function as parasites, living off plants or scavenging the remains or detritus of other life-forms. A fungus that attacks wood (called lignicolous ...

“This kind of study would have been cost and time prohibitive even five years ago.” Trichaptum is a group of woody, plate-like mushrooms (shelf fungi) that commonly grow on trees and fallen logs in ...

If you're walking outdoors, chances are something remarkable is happening under your feet. Vast fungal networks are silently working to keep ecosystems alive. These fungi aren't what you might ...

Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web — transporting nutrients and sending danger signals. Otzi, the 45,000-year ...

Spores from that fungi could later be used to inoculate wood in man-made slash piles. She fled the wildfires with her kids. But her husband stayed behind to fight them Forests are thinned to ...

Professor Anders Dahlberg, co-ordinator for the IUCN’s mushroom, bracket and puffball specialist group, said: “While fungi mainly live hidden underground and inside wood, their loss impacts ...