"Our dependence on plastic is unsustainable." Company launches transformative fungi-powered technology that can eat through ...

whole communities of bacteria and fungi and its active members were compared in topsoil of a Picea abies forest during a period of organic matter decomposition. Fungi quantitatively dominate the ...

“And so we seem to have cooked out the fungal pathogens.” Without fungi to aid in decomposition, all life in the forest would soon be buried under a mountain of dead plant matter. “[Fungi ...

7. Decomposition Process: As the compost pile matures, microorganisms, primarily bacteria and fungi, break down the organic matter. Bacteria are responsible for the initial decomposition ...

Ectomycorrhizal fungi have also been found to slow down the process of rotting; decomposition breaks down all that locked-away carbon and releases it into the atmosphere. So the fungi, in effect ...