Animals help disperse seeds and spores for many plant and fungal species. This typically happens when animals eat the ...

Mycorrhizal fungi form one of the most widespread and ancient symbiotic associations with land plants, underpinning critical ecosystem functions. Through intricate mutualistic relationships, these ...

Benjamin Cole, senior author of the Nature Plants paper describing one of the first cross-kingdom spatially-resolved transcriptomics studies to date. For millions of years, underground fungi have ...

Sweet herbal scents of spring waft through the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center as Elena Leander digs into a research plot, seeking to understand the unsung heroes of Texas’s iconic annual blooms.

This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...

The Underground Internet Mycelium are incredibly tiny threads of fungal organisms that wrap around or bore into tree roots, ...

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 ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change. Though invisible on the surface of the desert, ...

There’s no shortage of products designed to grow beneficial fungi that will help your crops or garden. Whether they actually do that, though, is a different matter. A burgeoning billion-dollar ...

They play a vital role in nourishing plants and protecting them from stress and disease. Question: In a recent Advice to Grow By column you wrote about wood decay fungi and the damage they cause in ...