Rare ‘flower of the underworld’ found in Yunnan’s Ailao Mountains. Photo: web. During a recent scientific expedition in the ...

However, saprophytic fungi also play a big role in breaking down leaf litter, animal feces, and other ‘waste’ material. Varieties like wine caps, shitakes, and oysters feed on carbonaceous materials ...

Plant essential oils of five aromatic herb species of the family Lamiaceae (Origanum sp., Thymus sp., Mellisa sp., Mentha sp. and Nepeta sp.) were investigated for antimicrobial effect against plant ...

Michael A. Vincent, Keith A. Seifert, Robert A. Samson, Akanthomyces johnsonii, a Saprophytic Synnematous Hyphomycete, Mycologia, Vol. 80, No. 5 (Sep. - Oct., 1988 ...

With heavy rains, mushrooms have been popping up in mulch, garden beds and lawns all around Colorado. But they don't stick around too long. It's like the obscure '90s Dada song, "Here Today, Gone ...

"Saprophytic fungi are still very much understudied and underloved," says Dr Drakulic. Turkey tail fungi are a common sight on dead logs, trunks and fallen branches across the UK.

THE method commonly used to determine the competitive saprophytic ability of soil fungi consists of exposing suitable substrates to colonization by the fungus in non-sterile soil. A serious ...

New species of mushroom, Candolleomyces albosquamosus, found in Western Ghats, Kerala. Honey-yellow cap, white stem, grows to 58mm. Morphological & molecular studies confirm new species. Only 35 ...

Aspergillus species are soil moulds, but are capable of living just about anywhere in the environment where there is a little moisture and basic substrate on which to base their saprophytic existence.

India has so far reported over 40,845 cases of mucormycosis or black fungus so far, a majority of which infected the brain and sinuses of covid-19 patients. According to the government data ...