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 ...

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites ...

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 ...

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.

If “The Last of Us” has you unnerved by fungi, these six books can offer some new perspective. (Our spore-bearing, mysterious little neighbors aren’t completely evil — promise.) ...

Ascomycetes in Colour by Peter I. Thompson illustrates with colour photographs 700 species from the ascomycota. This book provides the field mycologist with a reference guide for locating and ...

Ascomycetes in Colour illustrates and describes fungi that are mainly cups, discs and spheres which grow on, or just beneath the surface of their host.

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 ...

The fungal Ascomycota provide a model phylum to investigate the evolution of complex multicellularity. Here, the authors combine genome sequencing with comparative and functional genomics to ...

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 ...