One of the main foods high in Vitamin B, mushrooms can help keep your immune system healthy with oyster and shitake taking ...

Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus spp.) Brightly colored and striking, chicken of the woods mushrooms are another example of fungi that thrive on decaying wood. While edible and popular among ...

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 ...

If the environment changes—for example, during a drought—they may be exposed and become a risk to the health of the habitats. "When sediments are exposed to air, these fungi may begin to ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

After the Chernobyl disaster, scientists observed patches of blackened growths on the walls of the No. 4 reactor—fungi that seemed ... and agriculture. For example, genes responsible for this ...

The upland moa was likely drawn to the fungi because of their resemblance ... Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct ...