Considerable revisionary effort is currently being directed toward the systematics of the Fungi Imperfecti and, in particular, toward the classification of the hyphomycetous molds. The classical ...

AS a terminal group, the Fungi possess but little interest for those whose aim is to gain an insight into the general scheme of evolution of the plant-world. On the other hand, it may safely be ...

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.

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 ...

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 56, No. 410, Special Issue: Making Sense of the Metabolome (January 2005), pp. 273-286 (14 pages) Filamentous fungi and yeast from the genera Saccharomyces, ...

Fungi exist throughout the environment. Some of them are useful, for example as food or as the basis of medication. Others are less desirable, such as mold on food, or spores that cause diseases.

Unlike the fictional killer zombie fungi in the recent post-apocalyptic HBO series, The Last of Us, zombie fungi have never been found to infect mammals. But it’s no surprise that they animate our ...

If you want to discover a hidden world of new life-forms, you don’t have to scour dark caves or slog through remote rainforests. Just look under your feet. When then-graduate student Anna Rosling went ...

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 ...

Scientists' intrigue with fungi is twofold: the fungus in our bodies could hold crucial answers about the behavior of cancer cells, and the benefits of medicinal mushrooms are promising. Photographed ...