An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

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 ...

“We know we’re always going to see defense and counter-defense,” said David Baulcombe, a professor of plant sciences at Cambridge University, who was not involved in the work. “But what is novel about ...

Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – ...

Right under our feet, hidden in the ground, there is a complex network of relationships: almost all plants live in close symbiosis with fungi. These fungi do not form the classic mushroom fruiting ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of ...

Vegan Diet: Since they’re not animal products, mushrooms are considered vegan. Genetic Differences: Fungi have different genetic makeup than both plants and animals. Cultural Variance: Some may ...

430 million years ago, towering life-forms known as Prototaxites emerged from the ground, reaching heights of up to 26 feet and growing trunks up to 3 feet wide. When the first Prototaxites fossil ...

FROM toothy toadstools to ghost palms in Borneo, close to 200 new plants and fungi were introduced to the scientific world in 2024. Over the past 12 months ccientists from the Royal Botanic ...