The Shroom With A View: Mushrooms are fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting bodies found all over the world. They can grow in practically any environment with moisture. For the past 30 years, botanist ...

The orange goo that took over the shore of a remote Alaskan village is actually a mass of fungal spores — not microscopic eggs, as scientists at the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration first ...

Sexual reproduction combines the genes of two parents, which allows for increasing genetic diversity.) "This group of fungi, when it reproduces sexually, can create spores that can last for a decade," ...

Researchers have discovered that an Ascomycete fungus that is common in polluted water produces environmentally important minerals during asexual reproduction. The key chemical in the process, ...

The life cycle of a mushroom is a little odd. As a biology teacher, I have to explain the cycle to my students, and I have settled on a starting point that makes the most sense: the spore. A fungal ...

The ingenious way that mushrooms and certain other fungi fire spores into the atmosphere in order to reproduce has been mimicked by a team of engineers and fungal biologists. These organisms disperse ...

A fungal disease that poses a serious threat to cacao plants -- the source of chocolate -- reproduces clonally, researchers find. The fungus causes frosty pod rot, a disease that has decimated cacao ...

Researchers have shed light on a long-standing mystery concerning how fungal spores are released and dispersed. Knowing how far these spores can travel could now help protect cereal crops from one of ...

Hummingbirds act as vectors of Fusarium moniliforme spores on protandrous flowers of Moussonia deppeana. The resulting interactions between the pathogen and plant-pollinator interactions were ...