Microscopy assessment – Soil Food Web Student

How long is a piece of fungus?

Ever struggled to estimate the length of an organism under the microscope?

Here are a couple of techniques that don’t just rely on eyeballing….

A glimpse at the sex lives of fungi

For several weeks I wondered: What is it that I am seeing here?There were lots of little off-shoots of the single strands of mycelium, at fairly regular intervals. Someone had suggested the fungus started branching off in search for food, but this did not fit the pattern I saw. Branching fungal strands, hyphae, maintain theirContinue reading “A glimpse at the sex lives of fungi”