Studies show socks harbour both potentially dangerous pathogens, including Aspergillus, Staphylococcus, Candida, Histoplasma ...

Mycorrhizal fungi help plants thrive, and sequester an enormous amount of carbon. But a new atlas shows that they need urgent ...

Mycorrhizal fungi play an essential role in climate regulation and ecosystem health, and researchers have used A.I. to ...

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

On the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, Petrolli and his colleagues sampled roots from 10 species of rainforest orchids growing on six individual trees, three each from two different tree species ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean is an uninhabited atoll that houses underground mycorrhizal networks that may have evolved a unique ability to cycle nutrients between seabirds, rainforest trees ...