Plant and fungus systematics and taxonomy constitute foundational disciplines that underpin our understanding of biodiversity. Historically grounded in morphological and anatomical studies, these ...

• Bromeliads represent a major component of neotropical forests and encompass a considerable diversity of life forms and nutritional modes. Bromeliads explore highly stressful habitats and ...

The relative proportions of various lipid classes and the fatty acid composition of extramatrical structures (azygospores and auxiliary cells) of Gigaspora margarita and intramatrical structures of ...

In a step toward bridging the gap between fungal taxonomy and molecular ecology, scientists have characterized a sample of "mystery" fungus collected in North Carolina and found its home in the fungal ...

A team of scientists led by Acharya Balkrishna has presented a thorough review of the rust genus Skierka. Details inside.

If you want to discover a hidden world of new life-forms, you don’t have to scour dark caves or slog through remote rainforests. Just look under your feet. When then-graduate student Anna Rosling went ...

“If there is a rule in biology, I can think about how it does not apply to fungi,” Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said earlier this year. “They challenge our ...