A team of researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University, led by Yu Fukasawa, associate professor in the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, set out to determine whether fungi could recognize shapes.

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 ...

The UK and Chile are proposing at the UN’s biodiversity conference COP16 in Colombia this week that fungi should receive a equal protection status to animals and plants. In the "Fungal ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

Fungi could be classed alongside animals and plants as a separate realm for environmental protection under plans drawn up by the UK and Chile. The proposal, submitted to a UN conference on ...

However, some groups, such as fungi, remain understudied, and the level of risk they face is unknown. This isn’t because fungi are insignificant; according to the U.N. Decade on Restoration, fungi are ...

Adriana Morrell thinks fungi have a lot of secret abilities, and in her lab at Lethbridge Polytechnic, she's busy trying to find out what they are. "It's all about starting to think about this ...

According to the first big assessment of the state of the world's fungi, the fungal kingdom is vital to life on Earth. Yet, more than 90% of the estimated 3.8 million fungi in the world are ...

A teaspoon of soil from the Amazon contains as many as 1,800 microscopic life forms, of which 400 are fungi. Largely invisible and hidden underground, the "dark matter" of life on Earth has ...