The fruiting bodies of bambusicolous Shiraia fungi have long been used in traditional Chinese folk medicine. Hypocrellin A (HA) is a bioactive perylenequinone from the fruiting bodies and serves as an ...

Animals help disperse seeds and spores for many plant and fungal species. This typically happens when animals eat the fruiting bodies of plants and fungi and pass seeds and spores through their ...

Sometimes a photo is literally a matter of life, death — and zombies. This haunting image, winner of the 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution photography competition, certainly fits that description. It ...

Morel mushrooms are spring’s fungal prize. Autumn offers mycophagus collectors many more opportunities, and over a much longer season. Sulphur fungi (chicken-of-the-woods), puffballs, oyster fungi, ...