Genome studies have helped uncover an entirely new branch of fungi that includes 600 seemingly unconnected fungi. However, when digging into the genome sequencing of each fungus, researchers ...

1. A Contemporary View of the Holomorph: Nucleic Acid Sequence and Computer Databases are Changing Fungal Classification / J.W. Taylor -- 2. The Fungal Holomorph: An Overview / D.R. Reynolds -- 3.

Underground, intricate networks of soil fungi underpin the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their global ...

The freezer in the laboratory of Professor of Mycorrhizal Studies Leho Tedersoo contains DNA samples of tens of thousands of microscopic soil fungi collected worldwide. This invaluable treasury is the ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

When Italian botanist Giuseppe Inzenga first tasted the white ferula mushroom in 1863, he described it as one of the tastiest he had ever had. Once found in just 38 square miles on Sicily’s Madonie ...