A light micrograph of a thin slice through a cup fungus called Peziza. It grows on decaying wood and organic matter and reproduces itself by producing ascospores. This section shows the fungus' spore ...

This confocal micrograph shows wheat stigma hairs (blue) infected with ergot fungus (shown in light pink). The stigma hairs are part of the female reproductive organs of the plant. When a pollen grain...

Transmission electron micrograph of a negatively stained mitochondria from the fungi Neurospora. The use of osmium tetroxide as a fixative for electron microscopy was first described by Dr. Palade at ...

This confocal micrograph shows wheat stigma (green) infected with Claviceps fungus (yellow). The image was captured with a confocal microscope using a 40X objective. A related image is available as ...

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of rust on a rose leaf. Rose rust is a disease specific to roses and is caused by the parasitic fungus Phragmidium tuberculatum and some other closely related s...

Thin section of a chloroplast of Arabidopsis thaliana lacking the FZL protein, a member of the dynamin superfamily of proteins. FZL is related to FZO, a protein that mediates fusion between mitochondr...

This image of dung (Coprophilous) fungi found on a cow pile is composed using 20 stacked images that were captured with epi-illumination. Honorable Mention, 2010 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Com...