A study on Lepraria lichens found they possess genes for sexual reproduction despite being thought entirely asexual. This ...

And while there are lots of asexual lichens in the world ... and algae or bacteria that can perform photosynthesis. For a fungal spore to grow into a new fungus, it needs to land in a hospitable ...

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. A small amount of glittering spore powder left behind by Floating Fungi. Seems that a sneeze is all it takes for this powder to vanish ...

Although every breath we take contains thousands of fungal spores, these spores do not trigger an immune response. Latgé and colleagues, writing in a recent issue of Nature, show that the surface ...

So they assumed that these lichens are asexual.” Fungus forms the ... The fruiting body’s job is to disperse spores, which are like the fungal equivalent of seeds. These spores get dispersed ...

Some fungi are able to reproduce both sexually and asexually. Fungi reproduce using spores which they release into the environment. A new fungus will grow from the spore. The Coprinus cinereus ...

In filamentous fungi septation occurs during both vegetative ... septal pore after septum formation was complete. During asexual spore formation (conidiation), two complete septa are formed ...