Although fungi of the genus Piloderma are common, scientists have now discovered five previously unknown species. One of ...

How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi ...

In particular, her team discovered what happens to a symbiosis when the plant produces stress hormones. Their research could contribute to a new agriculture in which plants and fungi are considered as ...

Fungal networks in the ground ferry crucial nutrients to plants. But how do brainless organisms form complex supply chain networks?

Fungi can keep us healthy or cause disease. As climate change drives fungi to adapt, their impact on our health is changing.

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 ...

Most orchid species have a symbiotic relationship with the natural fungi found in their roots. The plants provide the fungi with sugar through photosynthesis and the orchids receive important water ...

The term symbiosis was first used by Heinrich Anton de Bary 1, a German botanist, in 1879 to describe the relationships between fungi and algae in the formation of lichens. He referred to “the ...

Soils around the world are polluted, worn out, over-fertilised and exhausted. How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...