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 ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years.

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 ...

Zombie fungi were already controlling insects 100 million years ago, according to a recent study of fossils trapped in ...

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 ...

The two are made injecting the fungus into curd – essentially milk with the water removed. The blue spores in Roquefort come from Penicillium roqueforti, and the rind on Brie and Camembert comes ...

The Coccidioides fungus which causes Valley Fever also spreads by soil-borne spores. In 2019, according to the U.S. CDC, there were just over 20,000 cases of Valley Fever. On average it kills 200 ...

Researchers have found that mutations in the Pro1 protein cause female sterility of the rice blast fungus coupled with increased release of asexual spores, which could provide the fungus with a ...

Although many of us spend allergy season cursing out plant pollen, spores from mold and other fungi also deserve some of that ...