There’s no shortage of products designed to grow beneficial fungi that will help your crops or garden. Whether they actually do that, though, is a different matter. A burgeoning billion-dollar ...

Liz Koziol works with the world’s largest collection of a category of soil fungus that benefits many plant species, the International Collection of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. She and ...

Array “This is really uncharted territory,” said Assistant Professor Kai Zhu. “The climate is changing, and fungi will change, too. Those changes will impact tree distribution, and changes in fungi ...

Various types of fungi in soils are causing serious lung infections in 48 of 50 US states and the District of Columbia, even in areas that were thought to be free of dangerous environmental fungi. In ...

Conservationists in England are collecting cores of soil from an ancient woodland… so they can transplant them into a newly established site. The goal is to reintroduce missing fungi species in the ...

The UN climate summit, COP30, is currently taking place in Belém, Brazil, a region with some of the most carbon-dense soils ...

Karla Griesbaum talks to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about the different types of native fungi in central Illinois Central Illinois is home to an incredible diversity of native fungi that play ...

When wildfires swept through the North Bay in 2017, a graduate student saw a unique opportunity to study how fire affected his research subject: soil fungi. In the wake of the 2017 North Bay fires, ...

The cold months sneak in with a quiet kind of intensity—shorter days, frosty mornings, and soil that seems to freeze into concrete just when plants need protection the most. Gardeners know this ...

Research explores soil, fungi, phosphorus dynamics. Crops just can't do without phosphorus. Globally, more than 45 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer are expected to be used in 2019. But only a ...