Experts warn foragers to exercise extreme caution when collecting wild mushrooms, as misidentifying and consuming fungi can ...

Dotting the ground beneath towering forests of the Pacific Northwest is a bizarre mushroom that looks like a molar, dotted ...

In BESC 204 Molds and Mushrooms, the largest elective in bioenvironmental sciences, fungi aren’t food or footnotes — they’re the main event.

Many fungi "are edible, used in food and drink production including fermentation" and form the basis of medicines, IUCN said. No porcini mushrooms, chanterelles or other fungi savoured at the dinner ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

It's autumn, which means it's mushroom season, and a growing community of dedicated foragers are out searching for edible fungi. One such forager lives in Raumati up the coast of Wellington. Christian ...

Fungi used to be overlooked as a low-calorie, low-nutrition food, but in fact many are full of nutrients. According to biochemist and herbalist Martin Powell, many produce compounds that show ...

Université du Québec provides funding as a partner of The Conversation CA-FR. Fungi are among the most important organisms on Earth. Even though most of the world’s described 157,000 fungal ...

Fruit coated with the material developed by researchers at the University of São Paulo showed 11% less weight loss during storage and took longer to start becoming contaminated by fungi.