In ecosystems around the world, fungi play crucial roles in supporting plant life. Their ability to form connections between ...

Like mycorrhizal fungi, another group of common root symbiotic fungi, the dark septate fungi (DSF), presumably affects their hosts in various ways (Jumpponen 2001). These fungi have intense dark ...

Scientists have long known that Candida albicans causes infections using well-described mechanisms, such as toxin production and hyphae formation to invade host tissues.

Mildew is a general term for certain kinds of fungi or mold, especially those that appear as a thin, whitish or greyish growth on organic material like damp walls, fabrics, paper, or plants. The ...

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 ...

Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining (figure 2A) revealed broad, non-septate hyphae (predominantly ranging from 5 to 20 µm in diameter) with right-angle branching. Polysaccharide immunofluorescence ...

Deep in the fungus cave, there will be goblin villages, mushroom huts and, of course, damn spider nests. We can get rewards and goodwill by helping goblins, and we will be driven away and reduced by ...