ORIGINAL:Defunding one of the world’s key living fungi libraries: Research and farming will lose vital living toolsThis family of fungi can function as natural fertilizers, boosting plant growth and ...

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

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, ...

Why it matters: The mycelial underground network of mycorrhizal fungi helps store a huge amount of carbon dioxide in the soil. So much, in fact, that scientists are studying a way to exploit the fungi ...

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.

In the face of escalating environmental degradation and persistent food insecurity, innovative soil restoration strategies ...

Vast networks of microscopic, underground fungi serve a crucial role in Earth’s ecosystems — and there’s a lot we don’t know about them. More than a quarter of Earth’s species live in soils ...

If you know anything about mycorrhizal relationships, then you probably are making sure you have them happening in your garden. If you don’t know anything about them, you should. They are in and ...

Abundant worldwide, most fungi are inconspicuous because of the small size of their structures, and their cryptic lifestyles in soil or on dead matter. Fungi include symbionts of plants, animals, or ...