Straw mushroom meal can replace up to 50% of soybean meal in whiteleg shrimp diets without harming growth or survival. Mushroom-derived compounds act as natural prebiotics, boosting beneficial gut bacteria and immune cell counts in shrimp. The findings point to a practical, lower-cost fungal protein alternative that could reduce aquaculture's reliance on environmentally costly feed ingredients. A Feed Industry Under Pressure Aquaculture feeds have a problem. Soybean meal, the

Entomopathogenic fungi can be combined with chemical pesticides, plant-based compounds, and nanotechnology to significantly improve pest kill rates while reducing chemical inputs.

A €1.3 million Dutch grant is funding research into using a previously untested fungus to produce casein, the key milk protein behind cheesemaking.

Clear-cutting boreal forests does not reduce the total number of ectomycorrhizal fungal species, but permanently alters which species are present, with effects lasting at least a century.

Mushroom species such as Pleurotus ostreatus can degrade up to 95% of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in controlled conditions, pointing to a powerful enzymatic toolkit for cleaning polluted land.