Dorothy Clark of Culver, Oregon writes: "Toadstools are growing in the open ... The underground portion of the fungus feeds on decaying wood, like old tree roots, a stump (above) or lumber ...

With filaments thinner than hair, they shuttle vital nutrients to plants and tree roots ... the team learned that a fungus will forgo trading with nearby roots in favor of more distant ones ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building networks that released nutrients locked in primordial rock and supplied those nutrients to plant roots ... more than 500,000 growing fungal tips ...

(KFSN) -- Roots run deep on the corner of Acequia ... starting from the top down and the way that the fungus was growing in the way the tree was dying. We attempted to get it treated, so several ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

Using a custom-built imaging robot, the international research team of 28 scientists discovered that the fungi construct a lace-like mycelial network that moves carbon outward from plant roots in ...