According to the first big assessment of the state of the world's fungi, the fungal kingdom is vital to life on Earth. Yet, more than 90% of the estimated 3.8 million fungi in the world are ...

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 ...

Fungi, which constitute a separate kingdom in the classification of living things, can end up falling through the cracks. To correct this oversight, some are now pushing for an extra f ...

New to BBC Radio 4 Extra. Scientists and amateur naturalists studying fungi, share their findings on one of the largest and most fascinating groups of organisms on the planet. The term ‘fungi ...

In the "Fungal Conservation Pledge", the initiative aimed at establishing fungi as an independent and prioritized kingdom of life within global biodiversity agreements, the two countries aim to ...

This textbook provides readers with an all-embracing view of the kingdom fungi, ranging in scope from ecology and ... microbiology and related disciplines as well as researchers requiring broad ...

You can't walk very far through a forest in this part of the United States without stumbling upon a mushroom, an eruption from a vast fungal kingdom that all life depends on, but about which we ...

When fungi sprout up in our autumnal woods - what’s going on underneath? With Lynne Boddy of Cardiff University. From 2008. Show more More fungi can be found in woodlands than anywhere else ...

Fungi are a kingdom of life more closely related to animals than to plants, and many of them consume decaying plant matter. Some fungi make fruiting bodies that we know as mushrooms as part of ...