Through a combination of lab and field experiments, researchers have developed a better understanding of the factors accounting for different wood decomposition rates among fungi. The new findings ...

Climate change models could have a thing or two to learn from termites and fungi, according to a new study. For a long time scientists have believed that temperature is the dominant factor in ...

As the primary decomposers of organic material in terrestrial ecosystems, fungi are critical agents of the global carbon cycle. Yet our ability to link fungal community composition to ecosystem ...

Fungal communities inhabiting live, senescent, and decaying leaf sheaths, stems, and leaf blades of standing plants of Spartina maritima in two Portuguese salt marshes were assessed by morphological ...

A nimble parent may be able to change a nappy in moments, but the end-product can languish in a landfill for centuries. Now ...

A recent collaboration by researchers at Yale and other institutions sheds light on how fungi decay wood. Contrary to the traditional scientific understanding, researchers discovered that the mere ...

Every now and then the Mystery Plant column features something that isn’t exactly a plant. Like this time. I think it’s pretty easy to recognize that this thing is some sort of a fungus. That’s right, ...

University of Minnesota researchers at the College of Biological Sciences Kennedy Lab detail the role dead fungi play in balancing carbon within the soil. The Kennedy Lab studies fungi both dead and ...

Fungi are living organisms that support the ecosystem of the entire planet. Most people associate mushrooms with fungi, but in reality, mushrooms merely make up the ‘flower’ portion of some species of ...

Creative solutions spring from dissatisfaction with the status quo. After spending several years working as a hydrogeologist in the oil and gas industry, Daniel Reyes discovered a deep discontent for ...