The fungus labeled a "potential agroterrorism weapon" in a recent arrest touted by the Trump administration likely originated in North America and is already widely prevalent around the country, a ...

Tricholoma matsutake is a highly esteemed ectomycorrhizal fungus that forms mutualistic associations with coniferous trees, particularly species within the Pinaceae.

Two Chinese researchers were charged with smuggling a fungus classified “as a potential agroterrorism weapon” that could decimate crops and impact human health into the US last summer in a wad ...

Scientists have learned that another species of fungus found in Europe and Asia causes white-nose disease, which has ravaged bat populations in the United States and Canada.

A fungus named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is warping the bodies and even minds of spiders in Ireland. Researchers found that many Metellina merianae spiders across Ireland have become ...

Organizers with the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival want to make the Tricholoma murillianum, commonly known as the Matsutake, Washington’s official state mushroom.

Researchers in Maryland may have figured out a way that turns mosquitoes’ affinity for breeding against them — leaving them disinterested in biting you until they die off days later.

The toxins the fungus produces can cause vomiting, liver damage and reproductive defects in livestock and humans, it stated. More: Feds: Chinese citizens charged with smuggling harmful fungus for ...

Cases of a multi-drug resistant, highly-fatal, and highly transmissive fungus are increasing rapidly in the United States, a new study warns. Research published last week in the American Journal ...

Fungus deadly to bats found in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, crosses continental divide A deadly fungal disease impacting bat populations has now been detected west of the Continental ...