Together with his team, he is using mycelium—for instance, from edible mushrooms or bracket fungi such as the oyster mushroom or tinder fungus—to transform locally available plant residues ...

It's more like a giant fungus. It's the design of a biotech company that uses mushrooms to make eco-friendly packing materials, leather, and even bacon. Mycelium, as it's called, is basically the ...

Mycelium also sequesters a great deal of carbon, which keeps climate-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere (some fungi can store 70 percent more carbon in the soil!). Furthermore ...

Another study examined the dikaryotic life cycle of mushroom-forming fungi, which allows two haploid nuclei to coexist in a single mycelium. This unique arrangement can lead to nuclear competition ...