But a team of researchers and chefs are actively working to turn food that was once written off as garbage into gourmet ...

“Fungi are absolutely remarkable chemists ... who started using them as a source of food. Roughly 65 million years ago, an asteroid strike would wipe out 70 percent of all life on Earth.

Like humans, many fungi rely on plants as a food source. This impacts the yield of food crops. It's estimated farmers lose between 10 to 23% of their crops to fungal disease every year. The global ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — The discovery of a powerful 'weapon' used by many disease-causing fungi to infect and destroy major food crop staples, such as rice and corn, could offer new strategies to ...

Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal species are ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are the supply chains of the soil. With filaments thinner than hair, they shuttle vital nutrients to plants and tree roots. In return, the fungi receive carbon to grow their ...

Fungi can keep us healthy or cause disease. As climate change drives fungi to adapt, their impact on our health is changing.

We can find some of these solutions in nature. From helping us grow our food to tackling our plastic waste problem, fungi offer opportunities for a more sustainable future. Fungi are a kingdom of ...

Food mould is microscopic fungi. They reproduce by releasing spores into the air, and when they fall on to food that’s starting to turn, they can grow. Mould is made up of a hair-like branching ...

Instead of making food from sunlight, some of these plants have become parasitic and primarily suck nutrients out of the fungi in their roots. Whether these orchids change their feeding method ...

However, some orchids have stopped producing their own food and completely feed on fungi. Kobe University botanist Suetsugu Kenji says, "I've always been intrigued by how orchids turn parasitic.