160-Million-Year-Old Blue-Stain Fungus Discovered in China

160-Million-Year-Old Blue-Stain Fungus Discovered in China

Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using mechanical structures and likely relied on non-beetle insects for spore dispersal. Blue-stain fungi are a distinct group of wood-colonizing fungi that do not have the ability to break down wood lignocellulose. Despite this, they can cause [...]