A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 30, 2021, Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Burning Appetite: A Fire-Loving Fungus Eats Charcoal, if It Must.

How To Start A Fire With Chaga So, now that you've found your chaga fungus, it's time to make a fire with it. However, if you just harvested your chaga, it is likely a little too damp to use. In ...

Radwan emphasized that it's not just soybean crops at risk. The fungus causes charcoal rot in about 500 other host plants, including corn, sorghum, sunflower, and other important crops.

A study led by UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Monika Fischer aims to explain the function of Pyronema, a genus of “fire-loving” fungus, in a post-fire environment. According to Matt ...

Radwan emphasized that it's not just soybean crops at risk. The fungus causes charcoal rot in about 500 other host plants, including corn, sorghum, sunflower, and other important crops.

One is beneficial: “dead man’s foot”, the fruiting structure of a fungus that absorbs water and minerals from the soil and passes them along to trees in exchange for carbohydrates.

Charcoal rot favors dry, warm soils and is the disease to watch when drought conditions persist. Charcoal rot’s fungus grows inside the roots and stem. Symptoms most often occur late in the ...

Charcoal rot can build up in soils and can survive for several years. "The fungus can infect a number of crops, including corn, which limits the effectiveness of tillage and rotations for managing ...