Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted ...

This is the first study to report the production of such molecules by endophytes. The fungus Pithoascus kurdistanesis photographed under a microscope at two stages of its life cycle. One of these ...

Fungi are difficult to study in both nature and under experimental conditions. This is because of many species’ microscopic size, their short lifespan and the hidden habitats they call home — such as ...

Even though most of the world's described 157,000 fungal species are only visible with a microscope ... are difficult to study in both nature and under experimental conditions.