In short, fungi eat death, and in doing so, create new life. Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web ...

The "spaghetti" represent short fungal hyphae which might more aptly be described as "macaroni" and the "meatballs" represent fungal spores. If the diagnosis is still in doubt, skin scrapings may ...

How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi? The team of Prof. Dr. Caroline Gutjahr, director at the Max Planck ...

The hyphae of water molds—fungus-like pathogens that cause blight in crops—are particularly pointy. "A major challenge in ...

Mechanically sensitive proteins called gellins sense and respond to protoplasm flowing out of severed hyphae, quickly sealing up injuries in these root-like structures of fungi. Viviane was a ...

"And what better example of microfluidics in nature than plant roots and fungal hyphae? So, we set out to develop a method that could harness the natural growth patterns of these organisms and ...

DARPA wants space structures that are grown rather than built, and the building blocks for these new structures are living ...

In just one teaspoon of soil, there can be more microbes than there are people on the planet. That’s before you even count the miles of fungal hyphae also living there. The microbes, fungi and ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building ... minimizing the cost of the network structure. A minimal network of hyphae would connect a soil area to a plant host with the fewest hyphae ...

and caterpillar fungi. He inserted tiny electrodes into substrates colonized by the mushroom’s hyphae and recorded their electrical activity. The data showed that the electrical spikes often occurred ...

These fungi do not form the classic mushroom fruiting bodies that we know from forests and in some cases like to eat. They form an extensive network of fine threads, also known as hyphae, that ...