University of Minnesota researchers at the College of Biological Sciences Kennedy Lab detail the role dead fungi play in balancing carbon within the soil. The Kennedy Lab studies fungi both dead and ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

A team of researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University, led by Yu Fukasawa, associate professor in the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, set out to determine whether fungi could recognize shapes.

The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle focused on carbon and how it is sequestered in and moves between different reservoirs in the Earth system. Field measurements and computer simulations ...

Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil. It may be a vital ecosystem — one that you can help protect ...

Dr Honan added: “Fungi break down all dead organic material, so they recycle all that carbon and other nutrients”, facilitating the life cycle of plants and animals. There is a burgeoning ...

You know that old joke about how everyone treats us like mushrooms: unaware of what’s happening, separated from our neighbors, and covered in compost? We misunderstood. Those mushrooms were connected ...

In this activity, students simulate a molecule of carbon’s movement through various locations in the carbon cycle, before acting out different human impact scenarios. I have collaborated on ...