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 ...

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 ...

Wild-type fruiting bodies of a fungus responsible for wheat and barley head blight, upper left, and fruiting bodies of five single-gene knockout strains. Credit: Frances Trail, Michigan State ...

Libre Foods is working with both fungi fruiting bodies and mycelia to boost diversity, functionality, and taste in meat-free offerings, CEO Alan Iván Ramos tells FoodNavigator. Plant-based meat ...

I was taking a walk in my neighborhood and noticed that several of my neighbors had various mushrooms growing in their lawns. Mushrooms, sometimes called toadstools, are the visible reproductive ...

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, ...