News tagged with shiitake mushrooms

Interest in gourmet fungi is mushrooming

With its large clumps of cascading white tendrils, the Hericium erinaceus looks less like a mushroom and more like a lion's mane (its nickname).

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

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 ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

US shiitake market mushrooming

Shiitake mushrooms are the third most popular mushroom species in the U.S. In addition to taste, shiitake have a multitude of health benefits. Low in calories, glucose and sodium, shiitake are high in potassium, phosphorus, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Experts suggest grazing cows, sheep, ducks in forests

(Phys.org) -- Putting cows, sheep and other livestock into forests to graze could prove to be a valuable tool for New York woodland management, say Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) agriculture educators ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Biofuel cell generates electricity when implanted in False Death's Head Cockroach

Scientists have developed and implanted into a living insect — the False Death's Head Cockroach — a miniature fuel cell that converts naturally occurring sugar in the insect and oxygen from the air ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Insects top latest inventory of newly discovered species

More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects – 9,738 or 50.6 percent – according to the 2011 State of Observed Species ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Japan dumps low-level radioactive water into sea

Japan on Monday started to dump more than 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water into the Pacific as part of emergency operations to stabilise its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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