Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

A study has found that playing a soundscape to a common, plant-promoting fungus found in soil caused it to grow more rapidly than fungi that weren’t exposed to sound. The novel ‘eco-acoustic’ approach ...

Long-term ecosystem warming changes not only plants but the fungi in the soil below, according to a new study including ...

Farmers have long fought a quiet war against the fungi that rot crops in fields and storage sheds. Each year, these diseases destroy harvests of lettuce, beans, oilseed rape, wheat, and many other ...

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Liz Koziol works with the world’s largest collection of a category of soil fungus that benefits many plant species, the International Collection of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. She and ...

A team of researchers sampling soil beneath a millennia-old conifer in southern Chile found that a single ancient tree can ...

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Various types of fungi in soils are causing serious lung infections in 48 of 50 US states and the District of Columbia, even in areas that were thought to be free of dangerous environmental fungi. In ...

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