Fungi and Mushrooms

17+ hour, 19+ min ago   (754+ words) The oomycete Aphanomyces euteiches is one of the most feared soil-borne pathogens in global legume production, capable of devastating pea and lentil fields with necrotic roots, yellowing foliage and, in severe outbreaks, outright plant death....

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (96+ words) The Berkshire Eagle Kay Hurley of Carlisle takes a close look at lichen at the Berkshire Biodiversity Day 2026 at Bartholomew's Cobble in Sheffield on Saturday. What lives at Bartholomew’s Cobble? Here’s what residents found in 24 hours during Berkshire…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (432+ words) by Sukanya Charuchandra | Sep 21, 2026 Beneath the forest floor, fungal partnerships help to determine which plants thrive above. The underground fungal networks of canopy trees shape the diversity of the herbaceous plants growing at ground level, a new study finds. Forests…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (77+ words) For decades, entomopathogenic fungi have earned their reputation the hard way: by infecting and killing insects. Species such as Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae have been formulated as biological pesticides that attach to the insect cuticle, breach the exoskeleton and…...

6+ day, 42+ min ago   (606+ words) Published September 17, 2026 · How we edit In a damp field somewhere in Europe, a fungus is swapping grains of rye for small black horns that look like mouse droppings and work like a pharmacy. That is ergot, Claviceps purpurea, and the…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (209+ words) Can plants see? Can they pray? If trees could make music, what would it sound like? Those questions and others are explored in “Thinking with Plants and Fungi,” a collection of essays from botanists, anthropologists, artists, and theologians inspired by…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (599+ words) Plant roots are far more than simple anchors. They are living interfaces, constantly negotiating with an invisible world of bacteria and fungi that surround them in the soil....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (748+ words) In the world of biological pest control, few organisms are as commercially important as the entomopathogenic fungi of the genus Beauveria....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (325+ words) Hortidaily Botrytis cinerea is a broad-host-range necrotrophic fungus that causes gray mold in more than 1,000 plant species In blueberry, it can damage flowers in the field and later emerge as fruit rot after harvest, reducing shelf life, shipment quality and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (787+ words) When Martin J. Hodson walked through the door of Dafydd Wynn Parry’s office at Bangor University in Wales on 20 October 1980, he had no idea that the encounter would define the next four and a half decades of his scientific life....