The "spaghetti" represent short fungal hyphae which might more aptly be described as "macaroni" and the "meatballs" represent fungal spores. If the diagnosis is still in doubt, skin scrapings may ...

This is an image of the hyphae, or threads, and fruiting bodies of an Aspergillus fungus. The tubelike branching structures are the hyphae (1), which make up the mycelium that is the main “body” of a ...

In short, fungi eat death, and in doing so, create new life. Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood-wide web ...

How do symbioses between plants and fungi develop? How do plants decide whether or not to enter into a partnership with fungi ...

However, hyphae come in different shapes: some have rounded tips, while others are pointed. Water molds, which are ...

The hyphae of water molds—fungus-like pathogens that cause blight in crops—are particularly pointy. "A major challenge in ...

Mechanically sensitive proteins called gellins sense and respond to protoplasm flowing out of severed hyphae, quickly sealing up injuries in these root-like structures of fungi. Viviane was a ...

Fungi made Earth’s land liveable by building ... minimizing the cost of the network structure. A minimal network of hyphae would connect a soil area to a plant host with the fewest hyphae ...

In just one teaspoon of soil, there can be more microbes than there are people on the planet. That’s before you even count the miles of fungal hyphae also living there. The microbes, fungi and ...

These fungi do not form the classic mushroom fruiting bodies that we know from forests and in some cases like to eat. They form an extensive network of fine threads, also known as hyphae, that ...

and caterpillar fungi. He inserted tiny electrodes into substrates colonized by the mushroom’s hyphae and recorded their electrical activity. The data showed that the electrical spikes often occurred ...

Mycorrhizal fungi build vast networks in the soil to exchange nutrients with the roots of plants. Much of these dense networks consist of extremely fine tubes called hyphae, which can reach ...