Fungi can transform plant and animal products into delicious foods like cheese, miso and beer. A researcher argues that a type of filamentous mold -- Neurospora intermedia -- could also turn food ...

Scientists have discovered a potential new weapon against a devastating fungus that threatens rice, wheat, and barley ...

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Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering mustard plant used worldwide as the primary genetic model in plant biology, was long ...

That moldy food is no accident. Food waste is a huge issue in the U.S., where an estimated 30% to 40% of the food supply is tossed out. But a team of researchers and chefs are actively working to turn ...

A looming public health crisis may be spreading from Britain's fields to its hospitals, experts—which include University of Manchester scientists—have warned—with common farm chemicals potentially ...

Making oncom is almost magical. It starts with a pile of soy pulp, which is wrapped in banana leaves and sprinkled with the spores of a fungus called Neurospora intermedia. The bundle is left to ...

Of course, eating fungus isn’t new. Mushrooms are a type of nutritious fungus. And fungi have been used for centuries to ferment foods and turn them into other food products—like how milk is turned ...

Science is uncovering more novel ways to transform those smelly, spent banana peels decaying in your garbage into something people might actually want to eat. Around a third of the world’s overall ...