Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the ...

Streptomycetes are filamentous Gram-positive bacteria that are of great importance for biotechnology given their ability to produce a large array of natural products, including antibiotics, anticancer ...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are obligate plant symbionts that are able to colonise the roots of approximately two-thirds of all terrestrial plant species (Trappe, 1987; Smith and Read, 1997).

Researchers have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae - that is, the fungal threads that grow in soil - behave very differently as they navigate through the earth's ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mohamed Khalil Elhachimi, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...