By inoculating greenhouse na’u seedlings with mycorrhizal fungi, researchers hope to boost survival odds when the plants are ...

The UK and Chile are proposing at the UN’s biodiversity conference COP16 in Colombia this week that fungi should receive a equal protection status to animals and plants. In the "Fungal ...

Microbial ecologist Dr. Jake Robinson was studying the benefits of acoustic stimulation on the growth rate of a particularly useful fungus. Trichoderma harzianum promotes plant growth and ...

Cordyceps is a genus of parasitic fungi that grows on insect larvae. It contains various components that may be beneficial to your health in different ways. However, more research on humans is ...

A new study reveals that playing monotonous sounds can enhance fungal growth, potentially offering innovative solutions for sustainable farming practices Playing a monotonous sound stimulates the ...

harzianum grew 1.7 times greater in biomass than the fungi that was left in silence. The researchers aren’t exactly sure of the mechanism behind this noise-induced growth, but they have a few ...

and change its direction of growth accordingly based on the shape. Our comprehension of the mysterious world of fungi is limited, especially when compared to our knowledge of plants and animals.

How do plants and fungi communicate with each other? This is what a recent study published in Molecular Cell hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated the “language” ...