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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Biologist and Director of the Cape Horn International Center (CHIC), Ricardo Rozzi, teaches tourists and other scientists about moss, linchen and fungus at the Omora Etnobotanical Park in Puerto ...

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 ...