Carnivorous oyster #mushrooms can kill #roundworms with “nerve gas in a lollipop”
#Pleurotus #toxocysts #lethal_lollipops #octanone
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/carnivorous-oyster-mushrooms-can-kill-roundworms-with-nerve-gas-in-a-lollipop/
Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry ID'd the culprit as the volatile ketone 3-octanone.
CellBioNews