White-rot fungi have the ability to naturally break down plastic waste, providing a long-term remedy for one of the most ...

Typical mushrooms, basidiomycetes, can’t live in standing water, there isn’t enough oxygen. Ascomycetes however can breathe — metabolise glucose — in low oxygen conditions and so thrive in ...

Rizinde Hakizimana, J.C., Habiyaremye Muhashy, F., Mukandera, A., et al. (2023) First checklist of the African Great Lakes Region basidiomycetes Première check-liste des basidiomycètes de la région ...

IN your review of Dr. Pringsheim's “Jahrbücher” (NATURE, vol. xiii. p. 156) you refer to Dr. Max Reess' paper on the Fertilisation of the Basidiomycetes; this paper you compare with the ...

Mushrooms, whether eaten, used medicinally or in art, are deeply intertwined with global cultures. But they actually constitute a small piece of the fungal world. Mushrooms are the fruiting body of ...

Mushrooms are the fruits of a group of fungi called basidiomycetes. Fungal fruit bodies come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes, colours and textures – even fungal spores differ in size, ...

Uncommon, or rare, yeast infections are on the rise given increasing numbers of patients who are immunocompromised or seriously ill. The major pathogens include those of the genera Geotrichum, ...

However, the conservation of the CnTps1 IDD points strongly toward a necessary function in Cryptococcus species as well as basidiomycetes. In conclusion, our work presented here should facilitate the ...

Citation: Zouari M, Mikuljan M and Schwarzkopf M (2023) Impact of biochar on the fungal decay resistance of hemp-polylactic acid composites against wood basidiomycetes. Front. Mater. 10:1129303. doi: ...

The gut mycobiome (fungi) is a small but crucial component of the gut microbiome in humans. Intestinal fungi regulate host homoeostasis, pathophysiological and physiological processes, and the ...

The oyster mushroom (Pleurotus sp.), which is a member of the family Agaricaceae and the class Basidiomycetes, is commonly referred to as "dhingri" in India. Numerous Pleurotus species are grown ...

However, Basidiomycetes, the fungal clade containing mushrooms, rusts, and smuts, provide an exception to this general principle. In these fungi, the fusion of plasma membranes occurs between two ...