Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi and ...

It turns out that raindrops have been put to work, so to speak, to disperse spores, seeds, little asexual propagules and even sperm. [ On The Trails: Fund with three fungal curiosities ] ...

A role for the asexual spores in infection of Fraxinus excelsior by the ash-dieback fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus. Scientific Reports , 2016; 6: 34638 DOI: 10.1038/srep34638 Cite This Page : ...

The patches of lichen you've probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they're actually some of the world's strangest living things. While they're sometimes ...

Looking at the rice blast fungus, Pyricularia (Magnaporthe) oryzae the researchers attributed this to an increase the release of asexual spores. This species of pathogenic fungi infects a variety ...

Cylindrocladium fungi, with an asexual genus name from 1892, will probably be switched to the even more venerable Calonectria, the name given to the sexual state in 1867.

Fungi, parasitic plants that lack chlorophyll, ... The fungi also produce colourful conidia, or asexual spores, which tend to form in the morning and germinate in the afternoon and evening.

Though the findings suggested the fungi had become asexual, the scientists wondered if they would mate if given the opportunity. They placed the isolates in petri dishes along with a variety of ...

For hundreds of years, scientists have described the spectrum of spore shapes — a different one for each of 15,000 known varieties of fungi, an assortment so astounding as to have sprung from ...