This is an image of the hyphae, or threads, and fruiting bodies of an Aspergillus fungus. The tubelike branching structures are the hyphae (1), which make up the mycelium that is the main “body” of a ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Mycelium is the fabric of fungal populations: fungi produce thread-like roots called hyphae, which branch and fuse with one another to form a ...

While other molds, like Aspergillus flavus ... And it's made up of thousands of threadlike filaments called hyphae. It uses those filaments like roots: to feed. Hyphae extend into your stale ...

When the spore germinates, it produces hyphae or branches ... Cladosporium herbarum, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Penicillium chrysogenum. The most harmful fungus to health is Aspergillus ...

The "spaghetti" represent short fungal hyphae which might more aptly be described as "macaroni" and the "meatballs" represent fungal spores. If the diagnosis is still in doubt, skin scrapings may ...

DURING a recent study of a large number of strains of Aspergillus niger we observed a morphological feature not hitherto recorded, so far as we know, for the A. niger group. The mycelium growing ...

"And what better example of microfluidics in nature than plant roots and fungal hyphae? So, we set out to develop a method that could harness the natural growth patterns of these organisms and ...