Fungi are best known for returning dead, organic matter to the Earth, but materials scientists are exploring whether they could someday help our bodies repair, in the form of special hydrogels. To ...

Genome studies have helped uncover an entirely new branch of fungi that includes 600 seemingly unconnected fungi. However, when digging into the genome sequencing of each fungus, researchers ...

AS a terminal group, the Fungi possess but little interest for those whose aim is to gain an insight into the general scheme of evolution of the plant-world. On the other hand, it may safely be ...

Fungi are everywhere. Fungal films coat surfaces around us, and a fog of microscopic spores permeates the air. These ubiquitous microbes usually cause us no harm, but opportunistic species can take ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bryophyte systematists have long believed that because both the gametophytic and sporophytic generations are well developed and diverse, the ...

On Earth, scientists use stressed fungi to create medicine, like the antibiotic penicillin, and they hope that similar results will play out when the fungi are stressed by being in space. The San ...

About 600 seemingly disparate fungi that never quite found a fit along the fungal family tree have been shown to have a common ancestor, according to a University of Alberta-led research team that ...