Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

The understudied mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems and may prove critical to the survival of fragile deserts stressed by climate change. Though invisible on the surface of the desert, ...

About 13 billion tons of CO2 disappear underground each year, pulled down by mycorrhizal fungi - a volume equal to roughly a ...

Reality tends toward entropy, and nature craves balance. The methods behind these maddening processes aren’t pretty, either. Survival of the fittest means that even strong species are at risk of ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...