Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

The origin of red beans — also called adzuki — has been murky. A new study says Japan is where it all started.

DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistance to a fungus that has ...

Plants live in constant interaction with a vast and diverse community of microbes, many of which play crucial roles in promoting plant health and ...

Despite fungi's known global biogeochemistry, our knowledge regarding their contribution to ecology and biochemical cycles in the oceanic realm is rather ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

Antonis Rokas, a fungal biologist at Vanderbilt University who was not affiliated with the study, calls the work a tour de ...

A study led by a global research consortium offers new hope for patients with mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease.

Amylose films blended with chitosan, which were free from additives such as acid, salt, and plasticizer, were prepared by casting mixtures of an aqueous solution of an enzymatically synthesized ...

A technique called confocal laser scanning flourescence microsopy uses a die that binds to chitin, unique to fungi, seen here glowing green on the exterior of the fungal filaments, in a fossil ...