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

In plant pairs containing the DSE fungus, water from the host plant marked with dye was later detected in the receiver plant’s leaves, indicating the hyphae successfully transferred water ...

The discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China rewrites the evolutionary timeline of blue-stain fungi and extends the fossil record ...

Science News: In a remarkable find, 160-million-year-old blue-stain fungi fossils have been unearthed in China's Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation. This discovery, deta ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

Networks of mycelium, made up of thin, thread-like strands called hyphae, can be extraordinarily vast—in fact, the largest organism on Earth is a fungus known colloquially as the Humongous Fungus.

Image Credits: Mycocycle When the fungi get to work, they decompose the waste organic matter by suffusing it with their root-like hyphae.

How fungi form ‘fairy rings’ and inspire superstitions Circles made of mushrooms have inspired superstitions for centuries, but what’s really behind these cryptic rings?

Soil fungi have a root-like network of filaments known as hyphae that project into the soil. Depending on the fungus, some of these hyphae have rounded tips, and others have more tapered ones.