In ecosystems around the world, fungi play crucial roles in supporting plant life. Their ability to form connections between ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have successfully revived fungal specimens collected over 80 years ago, ...

Nestled inside a series of green cardboard boxes are some 1.3 million specimens of fruiting bodies—the parts of the fungi that appear above ground and release spores.

The lab is investigating what makes the death cap mushroom a successful invasive species, Pringle said. They hope to answer how it invaded the country and what makes it so abundant now. Sophomore ...

On the south side of campus, a wealth of knowledge sits in dark rooms, stored away in jars and drawers. This knowledge is in the form of specimens — over 9 million to be exact — including insects, ...

Fungi underpin all life on Earth, yet it is estimated that more than 95 per cent of fungal species remain undiscovered. Holding over 1.25 million dried specimens, the Fungarium at Royal Botanic ...

Back in the lab, they would then analyze DNA sequences to measure diversity, look at the level of endemicity, or native specimens, and how the fungi distribution radiated on the island.

Anahi Cantoran, a University graduate student in the lab, looks at how drought and warming impact the mass of dead plant material on the ground surface. Cantoran has done fieldwork at a field station ...

To contribute specimens to the herbarium isn’t all fun and foraging. Finding them is trickier than tracking down plants since mushrooms “are so ephemeral and dependent on weather,” Hawke says.

There are already 800,000 specimens of mushrooms, puffball, toadstools and micro-fungi kept in the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew, including the specimens collected by Charles Darwin. Some 400,000 ...