Support local journalism: Find offers for new subscribers here: Special Offers — USATodayNetwork. Many residents who grow palms are familiar with the signs of Ganoderma butt rot, Ganoderma zonatum, ...

On chilly morning in eastern Oregon, correspondent Conor Knighton headed deep into Malheur National Forest, driving a series of unpaved roads, and hiking far from any trail, all in hopes of finding a ...

A very common sight this year in our landscapes, judging by the phone calls we have gotten, is the presence of clumps of honey-colored mushrooms. These mushrooms are the spore-producing structures of ...

If you have a yard full of trees (don’t worry about palms because they are not a host for this fungus) and shrubs, be on the lookout for the mushrooms of Armillaria root rot. It is a fungus that can ...

Hidden beneath a quiet patch of forest in eastern Oregon, a single organism has quietly conquered the landscape, killing ...

Mycologia, Vol. 102, No. 4 (July / August 2010), pp. 898-910 (13 pages) We analyzed the sequences of three DNA regions—the translation elongation factor-1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) gene and the internal ...

Twenty-five years ago, James Anderson discovered a fungus that expanded the possibilities of life on Earth. Sipos and Nagy not only sequenced four species of Armillaria, but they also pinpointed genes ...

Here’s a fun fact: The world’s largest organism isn’t a well-fed elephant or a blue whale or even a giant sequoia. It’s a fungus. These images have attracted numerous visitors to Oregon’s Malheur ...

Michael J. Larsen, Mark T. Banik and H. H. Burdsall, Jr. Clamp connections were observed in basidiospore dilutions from each of four North American biological species of Armillaria (A. gallica, A.