Literature Highlights

Fossilized remains of fungal mycelia identified with spectrometric and microscopic high-end methods in 715 to 810 million year old rock formations via the detection of chitin and cell nuclei:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaax7599

Studies of Riley and Robert et al. propose that the classic division in white rot and brown rot fungi may be outdated and that there is much rather a continuum between these two modes of rotting:
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/27/9923

A basidiomycet produces yellow pigments after damage to the mycelium:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/np500552a

Genomic research on the important edible mushroom Shiitake:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037811191301562X

Discovery of new alkaloids in Mycena metata by HR-MALDI-MS:
https://doi.org/10.1021/np300455a

Purification of laccases by aquaeous two phase extraction:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359511313006764

Volatile sesquiterpenes of ectomykorrhiza program the development of roots:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7279