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16 unusual facts about fungus


Brian French

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Cassytha

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

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.

Ebbor Gorge

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

Even-toed ungulate

Cellulytic microbes (bacteria, protozoa, and fungi) produce cellulase, which is needed to break down the cellulose found in plant material.

Fungus Rock

The Knights Hospitaller apparently discovered what is popularly known as the Malta Fungus, growing on the rock's flat top.

Hemitomes

Little is known about the life cycle of the plant due to its rarity, but it probably obtains its nutrients by parasitizing fungi, so it lacks the green of chlorophyll.

Heterokaryon

This can occur naturally, such as in the mycelium of fungi during sexual reproduction, or artificially as formed by the experimental fusion of two genetically different cells.

Littoraria angulifera

Littoraria angulifera is a herbivore and browses on fungi and algae growing on the mangroves.

Manure

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

Microtubule nucleation

The γ-TuRC is typically found as the core functional unit in a microtubule organizing center (MTOC), such as the centrosome in animal cells or the spindle pole bodies in fungi and algae.

Mushroom Observer

Its purpose is to "record observations about mushrooms, help people identify mushrooms they aren’t familiar with, and expand the community around the scientific exploration of mushrooms".

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.

Field guides are present in the form of blue and white tiles, depicting bacteria, fungi, insects, lichen and plants that may be found on the log.

Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis

Spores form a part of the life cycles of a diverse range of organisms such as many bacteria, plants, algae, fungi and some protozoa.

Underdark

In the Forgotten Realms setting, Araumycos (Dwarvish, literally meaning "Great Fungus") is a fictional enormous fungal growth that lives in the Upper Underdark of the continent of Faerûn.


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.

Achilus flammeus

Achilus flammeus, the red fungus bug, is a planthopper native to Australia, and accidentally introduced into Auckland City, New Zealand.

Atlantic hazelwood

Atlantic hazelwood is also the habitat of the rare fungus hazel gloves (Hypocreopsis rhododendri).

Berkleasmium

Berkleasmium, Zobel, 1854, is a fungus genus belonging to the family Dematiaceae.

Biotechnology and genetic engineering in Bangladesh

In 2012, the same group of scientists decoded the genome of Macrophomina phaseolina, a Botryosphaeriaceae fungus, which is responsible for causing seedling blight, root rot, and charcoal rot of more than 500 crop and non-crop species throughout the world.

Blera fallax

Preference is for large stumps where there has been some heartwood softening by the fungus Phaeolus schweinitzii.

Bordeaux wine regions

The intense sweetness is the result of the grapes being affected by Botrytis cinerea, a fungus that is commonly known as noble rot.

Brown rot

Monilinia fructicola, a plant pathogenic fungus, the cause of brown rot in stone fruits, such as plums, peaches, nectarines and almonds

Butenafine

Butenafine demonstrates low minimum inhibitory concentrations against Cryptococcus and Aspergillus.

C. striatus

Cyathus striatus, the fluted bird's nest, a common saprobic fungus species with a widespread distribution throughout temperate regions of the world

Ceuthophilus

Items observed in the diets of Ceuthophilus species include jelly, tuna, rancid liver, American cheese, pet food, oatmeal, wheat germ, peanut butter, molasses, wild fungi, persimmon, bread, dead and living insects, insect eggs, arachnids, dead bats, dead ring-tailed cats, and human feces.

Claret Ash

In Australia and the United States a decline or dieback in some older trees has been observed which has been attributed to a combination of environmental stress and the presence of the fungus Botryosphaeria.

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.

Cortinarius argyrionus

Nearby vegetation associated with the fungus typically includes Acacia filicifolia, Eucalyptus nova-anglica, E. stellulata, E. viminalis, Hakea microcarpa, H. salicifolia and Leptospermum flavescens.

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.

Durianella

The fungus was originally collected in a jungle in Kemaman, Trengganu (Malaysia), on 24 June, 1932, where it was found growing on soil buried in leaves at a river's edge.

Entomophaga maimaiga

The fungus was determined to belong to the genus Entomophaga in the fungal order Entomophthorales and was given the name maimaiga based on geographical distribution.

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.

G. H. Cunningham

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

Ganoderma applanatum

The midge, Agathomyia wankowiczii (Platypezidae) lays its eggs on the fruiting body of the fungus forming galls.

Gyromitra infula

The fungus was first described in 1774 by German mycologist Jacob Christian Schäffer as Helvella infula (the original genus spelling was Elvela).

Jack Heslop-Harrison

In March 1945 he was posted to 21 Army Group Headquarters in Brussels, where he was tasked with retrieving a sample of the fungus Eremothecium ashbyi from the Dutch National Mycological Collection at Baarn; it had proved useful in synthesising vitamin B, something in demand in post-war Europe.

Lulworthiaceae

The type genus Lulworthia was originally described in 1916 by George Kenneth Sutherland to contain the species Lulworthia fucicola, a fungus found on the seaweed commonly known as the bladder wrack at Lulworth on the coast of Dorset, UK.

M. phyllostachydis

Mycosphaerella phyllostachydis, a plant pathogen fungus species of the genus Mycosphaerella

Maccabiah bridge collapse

An autopsy of Zines finally identified the source of the infections as Pseudallescheria boydii fungus.

Molinia caerulea

Claviceps purpurea is an ascomycetous fungus which grows on the seeds of purple moor grass.

Multistriatin

Males beetles, which carry the fungus which causes Dutch elm disease, are attracted to the pheromone.

Mycoprotein

Mycoprotein (also known as fungal protein) is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the albuminoid which is the principal constituent of the protoplasm of the cell." "Myco" is from the Greek word for "fungus".

Nia vibrissa

Fruit bodies of the fungus were found on wood salvaged from the wreck of King Henry VIII's 16th-century warship, the Mary Rose.

Nothoclavulina

The fungus was found by Singer in the late autumn of 1949, growing on rotting leaves and humus in subtropical forests dominated by Myrtaceae species, in the northwestern province of Tucumán in Argentina.

Ochroconis anomala

The fungus was honoured as one of the "Top 10 New Species" discovered in 2012 selected by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University among more than 140 nominated species.

Orgyia leucostigma

The fungus Entomophaga maimaiga was introduced to North America to control the gypsy moth Lymantria dispar. The fungus also infects O. leucostigma (Hajek et al., 2004) and could possibly have an impact in years when E. maimaiga is abundant.

Paenibacillus tylopili

Described as new to science in 2008, it was found in the mycorhizosphere of the bolete fungus Tylopilus felleus.

Pinus contorta

Suillus tomentosus, a fungus, produces specialized structures called tuberculate ectomycorrhizae with the roots of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia).

Preah Khan

A dark filamentous fungus was found in internal and external Preah Khan samples, while the alga Trentepohlia was found only in samples taken from external, pink-stained stone at Preah Khan.

Rotylenchulus reniformis

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

S. coccinea

Sarcoscypha coccinea, the scarlet elf cup or scarlet cup, a fungus species found in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Australia

Schizophyllan

Schizophyllan (Sonifilan, SPG) is a neutral extracellular polysaccharide produced by the fungus Schizophyllum commune.

Septoria

Several species of passion flower are infected by several species of Septoria, and a fungus, which has been going by the name Septoria passiflorae but which is probably an undescribed species, has been used to control the invasive Passiflora tarminiana in Hawai'i.

Stereum ostrea

The crude culture filtrate and methanol extracts from S. ostrea were examined to determine the antibacterial activity of the fungus against bacteria like Klebsiella pneumonia, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus and Micrococcus species.

T. vermicularis

Thamnolia vermicularis, a fungus species associated in lichens in the genus Thamnolia found in high parts of Namadgi National Park in the Australian Capital Territory and Severnaya Zemlya

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.

Thomas Platts-Mills

Platts-Mills has researched the immune response to a range of allergens including those from pollens, dust mites, the fungus Trichophyton, and domestic cats.

Trabutiella

, 1914 – a synonym of Phyllachora Nitschke ex Fuckel, a genus of fungus in the Ascomycota

White pox disease

Aspergillosis, caused by the fungus Aspergillus sydowii, affects Gorgonian soft corals commonly known as sea fans.