X-Nico

unusual facts about International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants


Gottfried Knebel

He was the author of the cactus genus Opuntiopsis, an invalid name according to the current rules of botanical nomenclature; it is now a synonym of Schlumbergera.


2,4,6-Trichloroanisole

TCA is usually produced when naturally occurring airborne fungi and bacteria (usually Aspergillus sp., Penicillium sp., Actinomycetes, Botrytis cinerea, Rhizobium sp., or Streptomyces) are presented with chlorinated phenolic compounds, which they then convert into chlorinated anisole derivatives.

Brown rot

Wood-decay fungus, fungi that digest moist wood, causing rot, includes various species that infect living trees and cured wood

Cassytha

They may pass various fungi, Agrobacterium species, viruses, and other pathogens to host plants, or from one host plant to another.

Christian Rätsch

The encyclopedia features 168 detailed monographs on the major psychoactive plants (e.g., Cannabis, Datura, and Papaver) as well as 20 full monographs on psychoactive fungi (e.g., Psilocybe and Amanita).

Coco peat

Trichoderma is a naturally occurring fungus in coco peat; it works in symbiosis with plant roots to protect them from pathogenic fungi such as pythium.

Corallorhiza trifida

Corallorhiza trifida is yellowish green in color, leafless, and partially myco-heterotrophic, deriving some, but not all of its nutrients from association with fungi of genus Tomentella.

Cornelis Bas

In 1953, he began working at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, as curator for the fungi, in particular, the Agaricales.

Diaprepes abbreviatus

They often eat the taproot of the plant, which can kill it by depriving it of water and nutrients or by making it vulnerable to infection by fungi, or water moulds such as Phytophthora.

Dipodium variegatum

DNA recovered show it forms mycorrhizal associations with Russula solaris and R. occidentalis, in keeping with the observation that many members of the genus form relationships with fungi of the family Russulaceae.

Discula

The name Discula is ambiguous and also refers to a genus of fungi in the family Valsaceae to which belongs the plant pathogen dogwood anthracnose Discula destructiva.

Dry rot

Dry rot is the term given to brown rot decay caused by certain fungi that deteriorate timber in buildings and other wooden construction seemingly without an apparent source of moisture.

Both species of fungi cause brown rot decay, preferentially removing cellulose and hemicellulose from the timber leaving a brittle matrix of modified lignin.

Ebbor Gorge

The valley of the main gorge is humid and provides ideal conditions for fungi and ferns.

Elizabeth Lee Hazen

She would expose the organisms against two fungi, Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans.

Fagus sylvatica

European beech forms ectomycorrhizas with a range of fungi including members of the genera Amanita, Boletus, Cantharellus, Hebeloma and Lactarius; these fungi are important in enhancing uptake of water and nutrients from the soil.

Ferrichrome

Ferrichrome was first isolated in 1952, has been found to be produced by fungi of the genera Aspergillus, Ustilago, and Penicillium.

Flora Danica

The original plan was to cover all plants, including bryophytes, lichens and fungi native to crown lands of the Danish king, that is Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Oldenburg-Delmenhorst and Norway with its North Atlantic dependencies Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Forficula auricularia

Control of F. auricularia has been attempted using some of its natural enemies, including the parasitoid fly Bigonicheta spinipenni, the fungi Erynia forficulae and Metarhizium anisopliae, as well as many species of birds.

G. H. Cunningham

Cunningham produced definitive monographs of New Zealand Gasteromycetes (puffballs), Polyporaceae (pore fungi), Thelephoraceae (crust fungi), and Uredinales (rust fungi).

Gastón Guzmán

In 1958, he published his first paper on a blue-staining Psilocybe species and the first paper on the ecology of neurotropic fungi.

Huautla de Jiménez

People also visit the town to buy brightly colored hand-woven fabrics made by the native Mazatec women, and to consume the endemic entheogenic fungi, especially the Psilocybe mushrooms.

Intramolecular Diels–Alder cycloaddition

The compound was isolated from the phytopathogenic fungi Alternaria solani, the cause of “early blight” in tomato and potato plants.

Isocitrate lyase

This is the case for fungi such as Candida albicans, which inhabits the skin, mouth, GI tract, gut and vagina of mammals and can lead to systemic infections of immunocompromised patients; as well as for the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the major causative agent of tuberculosis.

John Henry Warcup

Born in New Zealand in 1921, Jack moved to the UK to undertake his PhD, examining distribution of fungi through soil profiles at Lakenheath Warren, in the University of Cambridge's botany department.

Kashin–Beck disease

Studies of the pathogenesis and risk factors of KBD have proposed selenium deficiency, inorganic (manganese, phosphate...) and organic matter (humic acids and fulvic acids) in drinking water, fungi on self-produced storage grain (Alternaria sp., Fusarium sp.), producing trichotecene (T2) mycotoxins.

Leonard Rodway

Rodway has been honoured in the specific names of the fungi Calostoma rodwayi and Entoloma rodwayi, as well as the gum Eucalyptus rodwayi.

Leptospermum petersonii

The essential oil from L.petersonii inhibits the pathological fungi Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus.

Littoraria irrorata

It creates and maintains wounds on the grass, Spartina alterniflora, which are then infected by fungi, probably of the Phaeosphaeria and Mycosphaerella genera.

Living Things

Organisms, contiguous living systems (such as animals, plants, fungi, or micro-organisms)

Lysergic acid hydroxyethylamide

D-Lysergic acid α-hydroxyethylamide (LSH, LAH), also known as D-lysergic acid methyl carbinolamide, is an alkaloid of the ergoline family, and occurs in various species in the Convolvulaceae (morning glory) family and some species of fungi.

Manure

Higher organisms then feed on the fungi and bacteria in a chain of life that comprises the soil food web.

Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz

After liberation, Schwarz and her two sons returned to the Netherlands, where she joined the Centraal Bureau voor Schimmelcultures at Baarn, studying various fungi and writing a monograph on the genus Epicoccum.

Mycose

Mycosis, any disease caused by fungi, called mycose in French

Neukom Vivarium

According to the Seattle Art Museum, which operates the park, the tree "inhabits an art system" consisting of bacteria, fungi, insects, lichen and plants.

Neutrophil extracellular traps

More recently, it has also been shown that not only bacteria but also pathogenic fungi such as Candida albicans induces neutrophils to form NETs that capture and kill C. albicans hyphal as well as yeast-form cells.

Paul Wilhelm Magnus

Nearly half of his more than 600 works concerned mycological topics, and he is remembered for his investigations of the parasitic fungi families Ustilaginaceae and Uredinaceae.

Phaonia pallida

Its larvae have been found growing in various fungi (Amanita rubescens, Clitocybe nebularis, Lepista flaccida, Xerula radicata) and also under tree bark.

Pterospora

In Pteropspora the association is with a very limited number of fungi in the genus Rhizopogon, including Rhizopogon subcaerulescens, R. arctostaphyli, and R. salebrosus.

Rhizosphere

Strigolactones, secreted and detected by mycorhizal fungi, stimulate the germination of spores and initiate changes in the mycorhiza that allow it to colonize the root.

Rotylenchulus reniformis

Wilt disease can follow when opportunistic fungi such as Fusarium and Verticillium infect the plants, a process observed in cotton.

Shrawley

"...This type of woodland is a feature of eastern England and its occurrence here is unusual in the West Midlands. The woodland also has a long history of management with records going back to the beginning of the eighteenth century. ... The streams and pools included in this site add to the site’s conservation value ... the rare soft hornwort occurs in one of the pools. Over 400 species of fungi have been recorded in the woodland. ...".

Terana caerulea

In 1763 Michel Adanson had devised the genus name Terana for similar crust fungi and in 1891 Otto Kuntze included coerulea in that genus to create the modern name.

Tetrapeptide

Tentoxin (cyclo(N-methyl-L-alanyl-L-leucyl-N-methyl-trans-dehydrophenyl-alanyl-glycyl)) is a natural cyclic tetrapeptide produced by phytopathogenic fungi from genus Alternaria.

The Voice in the Night

John Brosnan's novel The Fungus from 1985 has a similar plot, where mutated fungi destroy England, and those infected die or become mutated mushroom people, depending on what kind of fungus they have become infected with.

Tri-Cornered Tent Show

The bands' recordings reference H.P. Lovecraft a writer from the early part of the twentieth century including the short story The Music of Erich Zann as well as the Fungi of Yuggoth.

Woylie

Although it may eat bulbs, tubers, seeds, insects, and resin of the hakea plant, the bulk of its nutrients are derived from underground fungi which it digs out with its strong foreclaws.

Zeranol

It is a mycotoxin, derived from fungi in the Fusarium family, and may be found as a contaminant in fungus-infected crops.

Zinc gluconate

Gluconic acid is found naturally, and is industrially manufactured by the fermentation of glucose, typically by Aspergillus niger, but also by other fungi, e.g. Penicillium, or by bacteria, e.g. Acetobacter, Pseudomonas and Gluconobacter.


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