When Melbourne had to isolate during COVID lockdowns, Greg Moore and his family discovered the pleasure of a very fine fungi-spotting season.
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Articles on Mushrooms
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Fungi underpin life on Earth, but are far less well catalogued and understood than animals and plants. Three scientists call for including fungi in conservation strategies and environmental laws.
New research has found what may be language in electrical impulses transmitted between mushrooms.
Plant the right trees in the right places – with the right fungal companions.
Fungi come in a beautiful diversity of shapes, sizes and colours. See stunning photos of those growing in southwest Australia.
Inoculating trees with an edible fungi can produce more protein per hectare than pasture-raised beef, while reforesting, storing carbon and restoring biodiversity.
As a laureate professor in nutrition and dietetics, people often ask me what I eat. Here are four plant-based foods I have on my weekly grocery list.
Poison can be a deadly defense that helps a mushroom make sure its spores are spread to new places to grow into baby mushrooms.
Forgot tempeh. The humble shroom has the potential to be used across industries, in ways we’re only beginning to grasp.
Using tiny ‘soil chips’, researchers have observed the forgaging strategies of fungi at a microscopic scale for the first time.
Going from a single spore to a finished fungi-derived leather product takes a couple of weeks. But raising a cow to maturity for bovine leather can take several years.
A simple chemical reaction turns the red pigment of beets into a new, nontoxic blue dye.
There is no solution to the unethical, unsustainable fashion industry – yet
Before being qualified as “magic”, certain mushrooms were considered sacred by the ancient peoples of Mexico. We explore their history and relationship to Mesoamerican religion and medicine.
Wander in the dark forest and you might spot the radioactive glow of the ghost fungus.
Research shows therapeutic psilocybin to be a safe and effective antidote to end-of-life anxiety and depression. Does prohibition therefore violate our right to “life, liberty and security?”
There is more to sex than male and female. For some species there are hundreds and even thousands of sexes and mating types.
Mushrooms, long popular on pizza and in cooking, are getting more attention for their health benefits. Here are some reasons you might want to add them to your grocery list and not just your pizza.
The global mushroom industry is worth $35 billion yearly and growing. But mushrooms and other fungi play important ecological roles that scientists are still learning about – and some may be endangered.
Luminous fungi have evolved pale green light to attract insects to spread their spores.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral researcher, TU Wien
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Research scientist, CSIRO
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Research scientist, CSIRO
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Lecturer in Environmental, Forest and Wood Sciences, Bangor University
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Maître de conférence, histoire, Labex Tepsis – Mondes Américains (EHESS), Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
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Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Professor Emeritus of Food Science, Penn State
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Adjunct Professor in the School of Child & Youth Care, University of Victoria
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Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences, Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Informatics, and Director of the Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies Initiative, Vanderbilt University
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Australian National University
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Professor in Plant-Soil Processes, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Art and Design, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor in Environmental Microbiology, Edinburgh Napier University
