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Golden Moldies
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Treasured by aficionados, fungi remain mostly anonymous subjects of distant kingdoms, underappreciated for their role as recyclers.
Fungi tend to be inconspicuous, growing under a log, on a peach skin, inside a building wall. The gallery of photographs on display here highlights a few strikingly beautiful species, as visual reminders that there are entire kingdoms of organisms, often neglected, that are not to be overlooked. For one thing, fungi are extremely sensitive to the environme...
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Science at Hogwarts.(studying fungi)
Science and Children
; Byline: Tisha Beaton Reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone aloud to my sixth-grade students inspired me to create a mathematics activity based on budgeting for school supplies for Hogwarts School. In that lesson, each student was assigned a name from the Hogwarts School roster and allotted
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The fungi: How they grow and their effects on human health
Heating, Piping, and Air Conditioning
; A primer on how fungi are formed, how they spread in buildings, and how individuals react through allergy symptoms, irritation, and toxicoses due to exposure Fungi can colonize building materials when sufficient water is present and release substances into the air that can cause discomfort and the
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Fungi fever
The Nelson Mail
; Fungi have had a bad image in the past, thanks to story books and fables, but the Fungal Foray in Nelson this week is helping to dispel the myths and reveal more about their secret life, as Jude Petheram discovered. Fungi occupy a deep, dark world where, for most of their existence, they go about
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Superjock era a boon to fungi
Chicago Sun-Times
; An unhealthy thing happened to me recently at a health club. I got athlete's foot. As the fickle foot of fate would have it, the day my toes began to itch, I had an interview with Dr. John Rippon, a world authority on fungi. The University of Chicago researcher wrote the book on fungal infections.
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Fungi, fast food of the forest.
Ecos
; Ten years ago, while walking through Washington's Cascade Mountains, ecologist Dr Steven Cork watched a ground squirrel unearth and cat fungi. `That's interesting,' he thought. `Why would you want to eat that?' Cork was on sabbatical at the University of Washington, and his studies weren't centred
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Digging deep, dark secrets of fungi
The Boston Globe
; Steve Hatch's Garden Pathways column will alternate with Ruth Foster's gardening column. Shiitakes, maitakes, giant morels. Watery soft rot, corn smut, apple scab. Yum. Gourmet mushrooms, plant diseases -- fungi one and all. Fungi -- which include mushrooms, toadstools, molds and mildews among
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Learning deep, dark secrets of fungi
The Boston Globe
; Steve Hatch's Garden Pathways column will alternate with Ruth Foster's gardening column. Shiitakes, maitakes, giant morels. Watery soft rot, corn smut, apple scab. Yum. Gourmet mushrooms, plant diseases -- fungi one and all. Fungi -- which include mushrooms, toadstools, molds and mildews among
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Recycling nature. (saprophytic fungi)
World and I
; In their quiet, inconspicuous ways, saprophytic fungi break down the remains of dead plants and animals, replenishing the earth with nutrients for subsequent generations of living things. As winter approaches, the natural landscape becomes increasingly barren and Ill, less. Animals migrate
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Eww! You're covered with mold spores!
Press of Atlantic City
; Just now, when plants are dying, leaves are falling and animals are storing food or heading south, a more alien form of life is thriving. This is the season of abundance for molds. As usual in nature, the difficulties in one branch of life are advantages in another. For molds, all that dying
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Filamentous Fungi Associated With Holothurians From the Sea of Japan, Off the Primorye Coast of Russia.
The Biological Bulletin
; Abstract. Holothurians (Holothurioidea, Echinodermata) are known to contain triterpene glycosides, which show antifungal activity. Nevertheless, fungi can be isolated from all organs of holothurians. During 1995-1996, mycelial fungi from several Far-Eastern holothurians--Apostichopus japonicus,
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