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• Fungi’s closest pal wins war between the sexes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 11 (ANI): War between the sexes is a common phenomenon throughout the animal kingdom. Now, a new study shows that certain plants, with some help from fungal friends, may also be involved in this fray.Most flowering plants form symbiotic relationships with mycorrhizal fungi. The plants produce food that ...
  15 hours ago

• British Soldiers

  
  Secrets of a Seed Scatterer — Authority: 464
  What did you expect in a garden blog? Of course its Lichens! Also known as Red Crest Lichen, I like the name British Soldiers, for the little red fruiting tips. You might prefer to call them Cladonia cristatella, a fruticose lichen.Lichens are dual organisms, composed of a fungus and an alga. The fungus supplies the ...
  21 hours ago

• Cool shroom vids

  
  Byte Size Biology — Authority: 486
  I am preparing an introduction-to-fungi class. Found this cool Aspergillus-related animation: Life on Earth never fails: Not sure what this is: Of course, there are the zombie ants I have written about before:
  2 days ago

• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08

  
  The Hyphal Tip — Authority: 108
  RT @mike_challen: Revised v2 assembly of Agaricus bisporus H97 genome now available for community annotation via JGI — http://bit.ly/sgJ95 # RT @topoisomerase: One gene every 700 kb in 20 Gb conifer genomes – Brian Boyle @ Rendez-vous Sequencage in Montreal…Oy! # Check out some microbial art ...
  2 days ago

• Fungi Not From Yuggoth

  
  H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy — Authority: 132
  Id like to start a new series. Lovecraft chose vermin and the other atrocious things that he could imagine to conjure up shocking images of alienness. The mores of Lovecraft and his peers might have felt a thrill over seeing a polar bear or tiger, but rats, frogs, squids, spiders, and gross fungus were just a ...
  2 days ago

• chegou...

  
  mos de sapo & ps de pato — Authority: 113
  a época dos cogumelospossivelmente um jovem ParasolMacrolepiota procera*mushroom season is herepossibly a young Parasol mushroomMacrolepiota procera
  5 days ago

• It Was The Worst of Times, It Was the Best of Times

  
  Small Things Considered — Authority: 118
  by Elio At the end of the Permian period, about 250 million years ago and not long before the dinosaurs appeared, life on Earth experienced its greatest catastrophe: a mass extinction that did away with the vast majority of life forms on land and sea. The question arises, who ate the carcasses of the deceased? ...
  6 days ago

• Muscle Building: Avoid Gym Germs with Simple yet Effective Tips!

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  With more people hitting air-conditioned health clubs, they bring along not only their workouts but also their sweat, flu, and other germs. But you dont need to fumigate the weight room or hose down the stair-climber to avoid catching something. These five simple yet effective tips can help you stay clean and healthy ...
  6 days ago

• Sang Har Mee By Fun Kee, Jalan Sungai Besi

  
  Chong's Loft — Authority: 116
  Old timers will know this place well enough while the younger generation might miss it due to its location. And I wouldn’t blame the younger ones since this shop is located along the busy road of Jalan Sungai Besi and the setup isn’t as attractive as those fancy restaurants in shopping malls.I ate here once [...]
  1 week ago

• Population Genetics of Pathogenic Fungi

  
  Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists — Authority: 135
  Common DNA-based markers are used to genotype fungi, as well as other eukaryotes. This technology is being used to elucidate the population genetics of mammalian pathogenic fungi. This exciting area of research is continually growing as the methods become more accessible and medical mycologists recognize the value of ...
  1 week ago

• Spiced Up Take-Out

  
  Fat of the Land — Authority: 403
  Chinese take-out. Its one of the great pleasures in life, especially if the take-out is good and cheap. Ive got a favorite Szechuan joint not too far from home. It sits nearly anonymously on the edge of the International District in an uninspiring little strip mall called "Asian Plaza." The restaurants name is equally ...
  1 week ago

• How Old is your Mold?

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 433
  Not all mold is bad, but are you willing to chance it? Have you looked deep into the eyes of your refrigerator lately?  We’re talking about one of those intense stares that delves deep into all corners and crevices.  A stare that reveals … mold! Unless you are a clean freak or living on ramen noodles, ...
  1 week ago

• Five Questions About Microsporidia

  
  Small Things Considered — Authority: 118
  Preface by Elio Bacteria, archaea, microfungi, and many protists are "mainstream" in the sense that everyone in our business is aware of them. Other highly consequential microbes such as the microsporidia and the oomycetes commonly elicit reactions such as "I really should look into them sometime." I have been a ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01

  
  The Hyphal Tip — Authority: 108
  A bacteria found on frog skin produces metabolite Violacein that inhibits Bd. The micro community may be important? http://bit.ly/3zj50r # Upgraded MW to 1.15.1 on fungalgenomes…. Now to fire up the new webserver in SoCal to migrate the services this week. # More references to published genomes added, ...
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• What is Natural Fertilizer

  
  IENACE — Authority: 141
  The lifeblood of any fertile soil is organic matter. It is that which allows the soil to retain water better and hold nutrients in. Porosity of soil makes it more water absorbent. And the more water the soil absorbs, the lesser chance your plants die from shortage of water supply. Plus, the soil’s ability to hold ...
  1 week ago

• Macrotyphula juncea

  
  Botany Photo of the Day — Authority: 465
  ...and a thank you to Randal Mindell of UBC Botanical Garden, who wrote todays entry: If anyone is wondering what the term gregarious means in a mycological context, Daniels photographs today do a fairly good job of illustrating it. Macrotyphula juncea is a relatively widespread, yet under-reported fungus, ...
  1 week ago

• Antifungal therapy. Eye drops. Contact lenses. “… topical voriconazole can reduce the costs, toxicity, and drug interactions associated with common antifungal therapies.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 132
  “… successful use of topical voriconazole 1% given alone as primary therapy against a case of Candida albicans keratitis.” 1 Researchers from Department of Pharmacy Practice, Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; ...
  1 week ago

• The magic of Britains wild mushrooms

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  This years fungi season is late but worth waiting for says Wiltshire forayer Peter Marren.
  1 week ago

• Wortcunning: Black Witches Butter {Exidia glandulosa}

  
  nefaeria — Authority: 123
  Photo from AnneTanne Given that Samhain/Halloween is only a couple days away, I thought that Black Witches Butter would be a most suitable candidate to do a wortcunning post on. It is not the most lengthy one I have done, but I hope you all enjoy it nonetheless. Other Names : Black Faery/Fairy Butter, ...
  1 week ago

• Pumpkin skin may scare away disease-causing germs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Oct 29 (ANI): Scientists have found that the skin of pumpkin contains a substance with an antibacterial effect against microbes that cause millions of cases of yeast infections in adults and infants each year.Some disease-causing microbes are becoming resistant to existing antibiotics. As a result, ...
  1 week ago

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