Fungi finds: UK citizen scientists make rare pink and purple discoveries
Plantlife charity enlisted help of 850 volunteers to look for waxcaps in places such as private gardens
And in
#fungalturn news: There is a Whiskey fungus fed by Jack Daniels covering a whole town. Or, as
#TheLastofUs watchers say: And so it begins.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/us/whiskey-fungus-jack-daniels-tennessee.html
Whiskey Fungus Fed by Jack Daniel’s Encrusts a Tennessee Town
The dark growth, fed by alcohol vapors from barrels of aging Jack Daniel’s whiskey, has coated homes, cars, patio furniture and road signs in a sooty crust, residents said. One woman is suing Lincoln County.
Oh no, there's scientific backlash against the
#fungalturn: Three scientists claim "positive citation bias and overinterpretation lead to misinformation" about what common mycorrhizal networks in forests do and don't.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1
Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In this Perspective, Karst et al. discuss how both the popular media and scientific literature have inflated the extent of evidence for various roles of mycorrhizal fungal networks in forests.
The László Nagy laboratory has published a beautiful and detailed fungal tree of life of microscopic diversity. You can Download it in high resolution!!!
#micology #biology #treeoflife #mondaymood #biodiversity #microscopic_life #microscopic #fungal #fungalturn
Link: http://group.szbk.u-szeged.hu/sysbiol/nagy-laszlo-lab-poster.html
László Nagy Laboratory
Our goal is to construct an improved, minimal genome E. coli to serve both as a reduced-complexity model organism, and as a programmable cellular chassis for biotechnological applications.
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