Mushrooms, long celebrated for their culinary appeal, may hold the key to tackling one of the world’s most pressing metabolic ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Microorganisms from mushroom casing material can enhance fungi crop development. Enriching casing with microbiomes from previous crops accelerates mushroom ...

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mushrooms are everywhere — on forest floors, in gardens, in networks connecting below our feet. The largest organism ...

Mushrooms, including cordyceps, turkey tail, maitake and reishi, have the ability to stimulate cytokine production, which ...

So the mushroom is just like the apple, only you can’t see the tree part unless you dig it up. Fungi are not plants. The cells which make up the two organism are fundamentally different.

Late summer and early fall is the best time for mushrooms. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been out and about searching high and low for all sorts of mushrooms. I find peace in the simple ...

In southeastern Pennsylvania, where 60 percent of U.S. mushrooms are grown, phorid flies are posing a threat to the industry, ...

Microorganisms collected from the material in which button mushrooms are grown may benefit the development of future fungi crops, according to a study led by researchers in Penn State's College of ...