News tagged with mushroom spores
Petroleum-eating mushrooms
Take a Petri dish containing crude petroleum and it will release a strong odor distinctive of the toxins that make up the fossil fuel. Sprinkle mushroom spores over the Petri dish and let it sit for two weeks ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Mosses use 'mushroom clouds' to spread spores (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have solved the mystery of how peat mosses manage to get their spores high enough to catch the wind, discovering that they produce vortex rings of air, like miniature ...
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Lightning really does make mushrooms multiply
(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese farming folklore has it that lightning makes mushrooms multiply, and new research supports the idea. Mushrooms form a staple part of the diet in Japan, and the fungi are in such high ...
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Killer mushrooms! Researcher guides work into deadly mushroom often confused with edible ones
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is thought to have been responsible for the deaths of emperors. In parts of California’s forests, it is everywhere.
Apr 07, 2010 |
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CSHL's DNA Learning Center awarded Science magazine SPORE prize
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has been awarded the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) for its creation of a science education portal at www.dnalc.org that attracts more than 7 million ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Global warming threatens France's precious truffle
Truffle farmers have never had to worry about demand. It is the supply side that is worrying, with global warming an ever more present threats to their success.
Dec 15, 2011 |
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SFU student researches fungi fighting controls
(PhysOrg.com) -- If Andrew Wylie achieves his goal -- to use fungi to fight fungi on diseased organic greenhouse vegetables -- there’ll likely be a lot of growers giving him thanks on a future Thanksgiving ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Orange goo on Alaska shore was fungal spores
(AP) -- An orange-colored goo that streaked the shore of a remote Alaska village turned out to be fungal spores, not millions of microscopic eggs as indicated by preliminary analysis, scientists said Thursday.
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Mushroom lights up the night in Brazil: Researcher finds bioluminescent fungus not seen since 1840
In 1840, renowned English botanist George Gardner reported a strange sight from the streets of Vila de Natividade in Brazil: A group of boys playing with a glowing object that turned out to be a luminescent ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
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'SpongeBob' mushroom discovered in the forests of Borneo
Sing it with us: What lives in the rainforest, under a tree?
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Scientists list top 10 new species
(PhysOrg.com) -- Glow-in-the-dark mushrooms, a batfish flat as a pancake that appears to hop in the water, Titanic-eating bacterium, and a T. rex leech with enormous teeth are among the new species from 2010 ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new species of yeast
In a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Réunion, a new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble collected from the biodiversity-rich ...
Mar 15, 2011 |
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Latest 'green' packing material? Mushrooms
A new packing material that grows itself is now appearing in shipped products across the country.
Jul 27, 2010 |
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Fungal footage fosters foresight into plant, animal disease (w/ Video)
Mold and mildew may be doomed. Researchers are closer to understanding how these and other fungi grow. "Fungi have a big impact on our dinner plate," said Dr. Brian Shaw, Texas AgriLife Research plant pathologist. "We tend ...
Dec 22, 2009 |
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