The Biological Recording Company and the British Mycological Society are reviewing how fungi records in the Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland are verified and shared. Recorders are invited to join an online survey and workshop to help shape a new national verification protocol for fungal data in the UK.

The Royal Entomological Society journal Ecological Entomology has recently published an article on which factors influence the growth of a parasitic fungus on an invasive ladybird. The researchers hig...

Plantlife charity enlisted help of 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in places such as private gardens Graveyards, sheep farms and garden lawns are among the hundreds of new sites for rare pink and purple fungi discovered by citizen scientists. The charity Plantlife has enlisted 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in their local areas, so scientists can get data from places such as private gardens they have not previously had access to. Continue reading...

COLOMBO — In 2012, Sri Lanka’s National Red List delivered a grim verdict on endemic Pini- Beraliya, the towering dipterocarp Doona ovalifolia (syn. Shorea ovalifolia) tree by categorizing it as “exti...

Parasites represent a significant proportion of Earth's biodiversity and play important roles in the ecology and biology of ecosystems and hosts, making them an important target for conservation. Des...

Intragenomic polymorphism of rDNA in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) has been largely overlooked in ecological and taxonomic studies, and the reliability of nuclear rDNA regions for species ident.....

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An online, manually curated and continually updating database of fungal antimicrobial resistance mutations provides a starting point for further research in fungal AMR.

Canada Post has unveiled its new stamp collection Wednesday featuring fungi and lichens found in the country.