Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on ...

If you have ever stared at a moldy piece of bread and a fuzziness is viewed you are looking at colonies of spores. Spores travel.

Ecovative spinoff received funding to increase capacity for production of plant-based bacon and pulled pork, and job creation ...

“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.

The insect said to threaten the food security of 600 million people globally may have met its match in the form of several ...

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 per cent of their crops to fungal disease every year. Share: ...

Many fungi "are edible, used in food and drink production including fermentation" and form the basis of medicines, IUCN said. No porcini mushrooms, chanterelles or other fungi savored at the ...