Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the ...

Normal and centrifuged hyphae of Neurospora were studied with the electron microscope. The following cell structures could be identified: nuclei with nucleoli, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, ...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are obligate plant symbionts that are able to colonise the roots of approximately two-thirds of all terrestrial plant species (Trappe, 1987; Smith and Read, 1997).

Annals of Botany, New Series, Vol. 34, No. 134 (JANUARY 1970), pp. 189-204 (27 pages) Penetration of the epidermis of cabbage cotyledons and haustorium development by Peronospora parasítica within 12 ...

Researchers have discovered the individual traits of fungi, and how their hyphae - that is, the fungal threads that grow in soil - behave very differently as they navigate through the earth's ...

The scanning-electron microscope was used to examine the cortical surface of 123 species of lichens in 12 genera of the lichen family Parmeliaceae. Two general types of cortex were found, one ...