Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated kingdom of the natural world. During a billion years of evolution, they’ve become masters of survival. And yet ...
We can now study these symbiotic mergers in filamentous fungi, and, by tracking adaptive evolution in the laboratory, can identify the functions needed to stabilize the partnership and enable long ...
The 21st Century Guidebook to Fungi manages to combine classical mycology with advances in molecular phylogeny, and also covers recent advances in a whole host of other topics. The writing is crisp ...
Dr Ester Gaya, who leads a research project at Kew exploring the diversity and evolution of the world's fungi, says fungi are a bit like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. "They can be good and also bad at ...