The Ascomycota,formerly known as the Ascomycetae, or Ascomycetes, are a Division of Fungi, whose members are commonly known as the Sac Fungi, which produce spores in a distinctive type of ...

Discover the fascinating world of 'noble rot' in wine-making and the unique chromosome distribution in Botrytis and ...

Rainfall can have dramatic effects on the microbial communities living in urban lakes, a new paper published in the Journal ...

Ascomycetes in Colour by Peter I. Thompson illustrates ... Peter began to wonder if it would be possible to create an illustrated book to assist with identification of fungi from the ascomycota.

An international research team has sequenced the genome of the ascomycete Pyronema confluens, thus closing a gap in the genetic map of fungi. For the first time, scientists have shown for fungi ...

Ascomycetes in Colour by Peter I. Thompson illustrates ... Peter began to wonder if it would be possible to create an illustrated book to assist with identification of fungi from the ascomycota.

Swamp beacons are in a completely different group-the sac fungi or ascomycetes-the largest phylum of Fungi-that contains yeasts, truffles, morels, cup fungi and tiny swamp beacons.

The combined gene phylogeny of the Fungi supported monophyly of the Ascomycota, Basidiomycota and Glomeromycota ().The Ascomycota and Basidiomycota formed a clade of ‘dikarya’ (that is, fungi ...

A study by the Mycology and Environmental Microbiology Unit of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili has identified new species of fungi that may cause infections or diseases in people and animals.