DNA samples from fungi collections provide key to mushroom 'tree of life'
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Genetic material from fungi collections at Purdue University and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, helped a team of researchers resolve the mushroom "tree of life," a map of the relationships between key mushroom species and their evolutionary history that scientists have struggled to piece together for more than 200 years.