In many plant pathogenic fungi, conidia are the infectious propagules responsible for initiating infection as well as disease dissemination. |
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Unlike other fungi, budding and fission yeasts lack endogenous DNA methylation. |
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Grain mold fungi also produce spores capable of aerial dispersal in the field as well as within a grain storage bin. |
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Then, after the fungi have had time to multiply, farmers would apply the colonized soil in manure spreaders along with their compost. |
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One final consideration is that the known fruiting bodies of marine fungi are not as geometrically complex as the Mistaken Point taxa. |
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Endophytic bacteria and fungi act both as growth promoters and as biocontrol agents. |
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Bacteria, fungi and plants synthesize pantothenate, but animals obtain it from their diet. |
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The combination of air and wet silage and heat make an ideal environment for yeasts and fungi to multiply. |
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The ring is caused by one of several fungi that grow on organic matter in the soil. |
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As mycorrhizal fungi can extend for some distance out from the plant root, this region can be significant. |
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The best thing to do with old cherry trunks is to let them lie in the woods, rotting down to feed fungi and invertebrates. |
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Active sodium export is a well-investigated phenomenon in bacteria, fungi and animals. |
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Data about antioxidative systems in mycorrhizal fungi in pure culture and in symbiosis are scarce. |
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The ascomycete fungi are haploid at all times other than when the gametes fuse to produce the zygote. |
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The fungi causing powdery mildew, leaf rust, Stagonospora, and Septoria diseases may infect the leaves at this time. |
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The fungi are important decomposers and also exhibit a variety of interactions with living organisms. |
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Finally, decomposers are organisms such as bacteria and fungi that feed on the remains of dead plants and animals. |
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There are several fungi that infect the leaves of deergrass, causing debilitation, but usually not death. |
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The fungi can also worsen the symptoms of asthma and cause allergic sinusitis. |
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There, by colonizing the peanut pod zone, the mold becomes a living shield against toxigenic fungi. |
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The bleach will whiten fungi or algae but does not change the color of dirt. |
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Organisms such as fungi have evolved complex networks in which there are centralised and decentralised pathways to move nutrients around. |
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He also noted that pigmented fungi were resistant, consistent with the notion that pigments serve as protective filters. |
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Impacts of elevated temperature on the growth and functioning of decomposer fungi are influenced by grazing collembola. |
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Other causes of bladder infections include parasites such as schistosomiasis, and fungi such as candida, which causes thrush. |
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Dermatophytes are fungi that can cause infections of the skin, hair and nails because of their ability to feed on keratin. |
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He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough. |
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In this research area, yeasts and filamentous fungi have played key roles as model systems. |
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Other fungi provide numerous drugs, foods like mushrooms, truffles and morels, and the bubbles in bread, champagne, and beer. |
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The steam-distilled fraction of the aerial parts of Erigeron speciosus was tested for activity against strawberry plant pathogenic fungi. |
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Both fungi were maintained by serial passages in Bacto-dextrose-agar medium. |
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Thus, counter-intuitively, plants are likely to have diverged first, leaving fungi and animals as sister groups. |
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He discovered that the fungi are smaller and about ten times less abundant in the plantations than they are in untouched forests. |
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A research team reports that in tree leaves, these fungi, called endophytes, can limit damage from attacking disease agents. |
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The fungi that cause jock itch and related problems thrive in warm moist places. |
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For example, one of the signature compounds for fungi is ergosterol, the cholesterol counterpart found in the cell walls of all fungi. |
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He uses a drip irrigation system to avoid wetting the leaves, which could promote the growth of fungi. |
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Insects such as root worm and stalk borer create wounds that serve as entry points for disease-causing fungi. |
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Fungi and protozoa may be observed but the light microscope's low magnification does not provide detailed resolution of fungi and protists. |
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It is one of more than 300 species of wood-boring ambrosia beetles which distribute the spores of ambrosia fungi. |
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This damage is associated with ambrosia fungi that cause wood rot and death of the tree. |
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These fungi form symbiotic associations with the roots of most plant species. |
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Monitor plants for bacteria, fungi, Colorado beetles, wireworms, leafhoppers, aphids, whiteflies, and flea beetles. |
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Aside from mushrooms, fungi are widely disdained by the agriculture industry. |
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As in the case of Hsp 70 genes, these two groups of genes diverged long before the separation of animals and fungi. |
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In borders where tulips have been planted for several years, fungi could be present. |
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In addition, fungi grow in the human body as a secondary effect of medications such as antibiotics and immunosuppressives. |
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They are often covered with crusts formed by discharge and faeces, and become infected by a variety of bacteria and fungi. |
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To digest foods, fungi excrete enzymes into the environment to break down complex carbon compounds. |
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Wearing clean cotton socks will protect the feet from fungi living in your shoes. |
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The bacteria or fungi, along with infected brain cells and pus, mass together in one area of the brain. |
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Because molds and fungi propagate by means of airborne spores, they can cause respiratory problems. |
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The garden has large patches of bright green moss, fleshy fungi, galloping weeds and, worst of all, a mighty infestation of woodrush. |
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Micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi and nematodes are often used as biocontrol agents against insects. |
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The fungi also coat tree roots, protecting against microbial pathogens and drought. |
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Among tremulous flora and fauna are tremandra plants, with their shaking anthers, the gelatinous tremella fungi, and treron pigeons. |
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Someday these fungi may be applied as a seed coating to make plants better fit to resist scab as they approach maturity. |
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One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi. |
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An infection of nail fungus occurs when fungi infect one or more of your nails. |
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Filamentous ascomycete fungi have nearly twice as many genes and are much more typical higher fungi than yeasts. |
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We are all surrounded by zillions of bacteria, fungi, worms, insects and predators out looking for an easy meal. |
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In addition, plants that are colonized by mycorrhizal fungi have a zone termed the mycorrhizosphere. |
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They argued that the simplest interpretation of this gap was a single-insertion event in a common ancestor shared solely by animals and fungi. |
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Finally we get to the common ancestor of all animals, plants, protists, and fungi. |
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Bacteria and fungi are largely responsible for the breakdown of organic matter on Earth. |
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Various germs such as fungi and bacteria live harmlessly on the skin and inside the body. |
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Many fungi are parastitic, feeding on living organisms without killing them. |
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The mychorrhizal fungi live on the roots and physically extend the plant's reach for nutrients and water with hairlike tentacles called hyphae. |
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However, indigestible cellulose can be converted into sugars for use as food or as nutrients to grow yeasts, fungi, or plant cell cultures. |
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In addition, many fungi are able to parasitize spores, sclerotia, or hyphae of other fungi, resulting in biocontrol. |
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This treatment helps wood resist attacks by termites and decay-causing fungi. |
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Sulphate assimilation is present in plants, algae, fungi, and many autotrophic prokaryotes. |
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Most nations of the world do not have complete inventories of their flora and fauna, let alone their fungi, protoctists, and prokaryotes. |
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Cultures of right and left lung tissues were obtained for bacteria, acid-fast bacilli, and fungi. |
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Stains and cultures of bronchial washings were negative for Pneumocystis, acid-fast bacilli, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. |
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Many rhizosphere fungi, including mycorrhizal fungi, are able to suppress soil-borne plant pathogens. |
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There are also photographs, giant fungi, jig-saw puzzles, and lots of twinkle lights. |
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When your potting soil is kept continuously moist by overwatering, the fungi attack your seedlings. |
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Rural people are allowed to collect medicinal herbs, mushroom and fungi, edible vegetables, wild nuts, and fruits from forests. |
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Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled webwork from the eaves. |
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For the most part, the so-called feather mites live a quiet life, hanging out on the surface of bird feathers, feeding off oil and fungi. |
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Now I've got to tell you I'm no expert in mushrooms toadstools and fungi in general. |
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The shiny metal cylinders represent the latest technology for storing fungi cryogenically. |
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Brain abscess is a serious disorder that occurs when micro-organisms such as bacteria or fungi get into the brain, causing inflammation. |
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Everything was overgrown with the same creeper vines, fungi and lichen that the old fences were. |
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The fact that mycorrhizal fungi can form shared mycelial networks adds a further complicating factor. |
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To diagnose an allergy to mold or fungi, the doctor will take a complete medical history. |
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Thus poppies, hemp, some cacti, and some fungi share with vines a symbolic connection with the superhuman powers. |
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As a by-product, fungi can produce organic acids that will corrode and etch inorganic materials. |
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In conclusion, true fungi and fungal-like organisms offer an interesting and often overlooked explanation for some UFO landing ring cases. |
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Heavy pruning to renew growth through sprouting usually controls several types of fungi that infect coralberries. |
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Opportunistic bacteria, other parasites, fungi and candida, are threats whenever the healthy bacteria diminish. |
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The fly agaric or fairy toadstool grows here too, especially under birch along with other woodland fungi. |
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This method relies on fungi to break the complex sugars of rice into simple sugars that yeast can quickly convert to alcohol. |
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You may find during the course of the year a huge variety of interesting fungi, woodwasps, tunnelling beetles, centipedes, and millipedes. |
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From 6 to 26 nucleotide repeats have been identified in the chromosomal ends of Protozoa, fungi, nematodes, plants, and vertebrates. |
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They appear to be parasitic on the fungi as no benefit to the fungus from its association with the Indian pipe has been discerned. |
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Some are unicellular, some coenocytic, and still others produce a mycelium much like other fungi. |
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Fruit defenses weaken after maturation, facilitating invasions by yeasts and fungi. |
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They are unique among bacteria in that they grow as branching hyphae similar to fungi as they gather nutrients from the soil. |
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The chimps spend about six hours a day looking for food and have a varied diet of leaves, fruits, insects, honey and even fungi. |
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Many fungi and plants produce laccase, and enzymes related to laccase are also produced by bacteria. |
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Also, some bales may contain fungi or dust that may irritate the respiratory tract of horses. |
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Natural sources of chemiluminescence include fireflies, glow-worms and a variety of bacteria and fungi. |
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And, under the microscope, that food just became mold, fungi, and yeast fairly quickly. |
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A life food diet excludes cooked food and starch because they cause mold, fungi, and yeast to form in the body. |
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Excess humidity inside your home also promotes the growth of mold, fungi and bacteria. |
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Although the colour of the cap is quite variable, the blackening should serve to distinguish it from other similar looking fungi. |
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Most are saprophytic similar to true fungi. v. Sexual life cycle is diplontic, fungi have haplontic cycle. |
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An example of this process, called antibiosis, is provided by marigold roots, which release chemicals that are toxic to several species of fungi. |
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This is a common infection and is often caused by a combination of fungi and bacteria. |
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Hyphal fusion is a synapomorphy of the higher fungi, but it is also reported to occur in the stipes of laminaralean brown algae. |
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Examples of mycorrhizal fungi include truffles and Auricularia, the mushroom which flavors sweet-and-sour soup. |
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It lives on subterranean fungi or, as we call them truffles if we're in France. |
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Sabouraud dextrose agar may be used for the isolation, identification, and maintenance of pathogenic and nonpathogenic fungi. |
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The objective is to remove old grain and residue that could provide a harborage for these fungi. |
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Such old wives' tales as the caps of edible fungi peeling easily, or brightly coloured fungi being poisonous, cannot be relied upon. |
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They are caused by fungi called dermatophytes that live on skin, hair, and nails and thrive in warm, moist areas. |
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This agent has activity against many fungi with excellent activity against dermatophytic fungi. |
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Many fungi are found in soil and often fostered by small ground animals and their feces-filled tunnels. |
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Quorn is a brand of meat-substitute foods derived from mycoprotein, a protein found in the fungi family. |
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All microbes, be it viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma, fungi or parasites interfere in research. |
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These sequences included proteins from a diverse range of organisms, ranging from eubacteria and archaebacteria to algae, fungi, and plants. |
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In the nutrient-rich area around the root hairs, microscopic bacteria and fungi feed and multiply. |
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Let us take a walk through this field of fertile fungi simply to see what there is by way of anatomy. |
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Fungal pathogens come from two main groups of fungi, the ascomycetes and the basidiomycetes. |
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In all such analyses, the chytrids were the deepest branch of fungi, followed by zygomycetes and then basidiomycetes and ascomycetes. |
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Most basidiomycete fungi do not undergo nuclear fusion to form diploid nuclei until just prior to meiosis. |
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Most ascomycetes have only two different mating types, as opposed to certain other fungi, in which many more mating types exist. |
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Every day the quarantine officials find a grab bag of seeds, plants and fungi. |
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Virtually all the plants in temperate grassland form mutualistic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. |
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Members of this family are omnivores and herbivores, feeding mainly on underground fungi and tubers also taking some seeds and insects. |
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Scottish Natural Heritage has been conducting an extensive survey of all stipitate hydnoid fungi in Scotland. |
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Some saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal fungi produce reproductive structures, preferably in slightly alkaline to neutral forest soil. |
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Although fungi are thought of as saprotrophic or parasitic, more than one third of the known fungi are involved in mutualistic symbioses. |
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The mycologists, fungi experts, have virtually seceded from the plant kingdom and made their own rules. |
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The most common cause of oral malodour is anaerobic bacteria and fungi as the major contributors. |
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The specimens were examined microscopically and cultured for bacteria, mycobacteria, and fungi. |
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Components of the cell wall of fungi are powerful and general elicitors in plants. |
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These fungi are almost certainly under-recorded throughout Britain, although they are also considered to be under threat. |
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This class contains the mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs, and a variety of other macrofungi. |
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Plants, for example, started out as green algae, while mushrooms evolved from several lineages of single-celled fungi. |
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The material they egest in their faeces has a large surface area, providing easy access for decomposers such as bacteria and fungi. |
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The 300-year-old woodland is home to rare fungi, heathers and insects such as stag beetles. |
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Volvariella is the third genus in which one encounters an obvious volva in the gilled fungi. |
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Virtually all pathogenic bacteria, viruses and fungi are anaerobic and will be killed by hydrogen peroxide. |
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Among other things, biological agents include bacteria, viruses, fungi, pollen, dust mites and moulds. |
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Prions do not contain DNA or RNA as do fungi, bacteria, viruses, viroids, or any other previously known infectious entities. |
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Cracked seed coats will leak nutrients out of the seed area which can attract many seed decaying fungi. |
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Pendulous sedges crowded the footpath, fungi sprouted in brown, black, orange and white. |
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Vertebrate genes are shown in brown, invertebrates in red, plants in green, and fungi in blue. |
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Most fungi of the Phylum Chytridiomycota break down vegetable matter in aquatic systems, but some are parasitic on diatoms or insects. |
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There are plenty of bacteria, fungi, and other critters in a shovelful of soil or finished compost to get things cooking. |
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Another reason for rotation is to get rid of fungi which easily strike crops such as tomatoes, broccoli and cabbage. |
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This mechanism, which has been suggested for AM fungi in grassland, is not surprising, given the extent of hyphal networks in forests. |
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It is now widely accepted that plants infected with endophytic fungi are often at a distinct advantage at times. |
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Would-be pickers should be wary of traditional rules for separating edible fungi from poisonous varieties. |
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What may follow is the proliferation of unopposed pathogenic bacteria or fungi. |
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All grains produce lectins, which selectively bind to unique proteins on the surfaces of bacteria, fungi, and insects. |
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But artist's fungus and other wood fungi were seen on decaying trees. |
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Now researchers are wondering if the compound might also cut down on waterborne fungi that destroy catfish eggs before they can hatch into small fry. |
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Yet, fungi could probably utilize the glucuronic acid residue in glucuronides as a carbon source because they can metabolize galacturonic acid, an epimer of glucuronic acid. |
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Moreover, copia elements, as investigated in this study, are the most rare type of transposable elements in fungi, especially among basidiomycetes. |
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Among the white rot decay fungi, T. versicolor was not very aggressive against any of the softwoods, but produced some weight loss in pine and Metasequoia. |
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Finally, like other fungi, chytrids have chitin strengthening their cell walls, and one subgroup have cellulose as well, a trait unique among living fungi. |
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The soil biology is composed of a great variety of microorganisms, fungi and mesofauna which have daily food and energy requirements that must be met. |
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It is also possible to use blue vitriol while processing grain crops in storage and pickling seeds before sowing in order to eliminate fungi spores. |
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Most fungi are saprophytes, feeding on dead or decaying material. |
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Bacteria and fungi primarily break down the organic matter in the trash. |
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In return, the plants' roots release carbohydrates to feed the fungi. |
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Sunken, water-soaked spots also appear on the leafstalks of rhubarb plants which have been infected with phytophthora species fungi causing crown rot. |
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It is a genus of fungi which has to be treated with special attention, since it includes several edible species but also the notorious death cap and destroying angel. |
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Unicellular yeast-like fungi are different from filamentous fungi in that polarized growth is limited to that phase of the cell cycle in which the bud is formed. |
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They have long since been touted as medicinal fungi, boasting the ability to strengthen the immune system and lower cholesterol. |
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Professor Mattirolo's activities have covered a wide field from phaenogamic and agricultural botany to all branches of mycology, his specialty being the difficult section known as hypogeal fungi. |
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Many different fungi, bacteria, and plants synthesize these molecules. |
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A special type of beneficial root fungi, called mycorrhizae, actually grow into plant roots, feeding off plant sap but also providing water and nutrients to the plant. |
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However, published data for hydrogenosomes in trichomonads, ciliates, and chytrid fungi are consistent with them sharing common ancestry with mitochondria. |
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In trials, ambulances that had just come off duty were swabbed and results showed every vehicle was contaminated with a variety of pathogens, including bacteria and fungi. |
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A visitor this past Tuesday was teaching me a few of the dried-up fungi one can find this time of year in PA, mostly shelf fungi or polypores with wild names. |
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Bordeaux Mixture provides a broad spectrum of protective disease control by preventing or inhibiting the disease before the fungi or bacteria enter the plant. |
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In the UK we have an estimated 12,000 species of fungi, many of which produce large and attractively coloured fruit bodies we all know as mushrooms and toadstools. |
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The fungal kingdom consists of macroscopic fungi vs. microscopic fungi. |
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Those who study protoctists, nucleated microorganisms and their immediate descendants exclusive of animals, plants and fungi, are disenfranchised. |
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An abundance of parasites, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, tapeworms, and the larvae of flies, wasps, and moths, are known to infect bumblebees. |
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The herbs showed no evidence of contamination by heavy metals or fungi. |
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The cycling of materials such as carbon, water, and other nutrients is mainly dependent upon soil-dwelling decomposer organisms such as bacteria fungi. |
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Many antibiotics come from bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi. |
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In addition, most vascular plants could not grow without the symbiotic fungi, or mycorrhizae, that inhabit their roots and supply essential nutrients. |
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These materials consist of various fragments of fossil fungi, mosses, water fern sporas, and other specimens that are helpful to carpological analyses. |
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Look for seeds rotted in the soil that are soft and slimy to the touch or overgrown with other fungi and bacteria, giving the seed a fuzzy appearance. |
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Home gardeners can buy the fungi as soil inoculants from seed catalogs. |
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He is collaborating with the National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica to explore poorly understood endophytic fungi and uncultured soil microbes of Costa Rica. |
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The functional differences between the two genes are discussed with respect to their possible history in these two fungi, which are very distant in terms of evolution. |
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Another, more speculative hypothesis is that perhaps fungi, which live within the roots of many distantly related plants, served as a conduit for the jumping genes. |
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Thanks to these techniques, Bruns and his colleagues have been able to show, for example, that the most abundant mycorrhizal fungi are not the dominate fruiters. |
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Alcohol long has been recognized and documented as a broad-spectrum effective antiseptic that kills bacteria, mycobacteria, fungi, and some viruses. |
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Factories sprang up like fungi while the countryside was laid waste. |
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The tests show that the primycin salts exhibit an outstanding activity on gram positive bacteria while the effect on gram negative bacteria and gemmiparous fungi is lower. |
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These fungi are notorious for causing a disease called scab, or Fusarium head blight, in grains such as wheat and barley, as well as ear and stalk rot of corn. |
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In fungi, plasmodial slime mold displays a diploid life history. |
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Mold is the common term used to describe a downy or furry growth on the surface or organic matter, caused by fungi, especially in the presence of dampness and decay. |
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In buildings, fungi attack dead organic material, which in nature would fall to the forest floor and be broken down as part of the nitrogen cycle. |
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If enough plant cells die, the sugar beet's leaves will exhibit the disease's characteristic spots, which are actually colonies of fungi feeding on degraded plant material. |
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Turns out the fungi in our inguinal crease are not the same ones on our heel pad or behind our ear. |
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Importers want their products cleared quickly but fungi and other plant pathogens like bacteria and viruses don't always like to reveal themselves. |
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Oomycetes resemble fungi in the form of their thalli, ecology, and the plant parasitic ability of some species and are traditionally studied by mycologists. |
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The blaeberries, crowberries, elderberries and stinging nettles, along with the more than 30 types of fungi which he finds in the forest, find their way onto his menu. |
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Its main use has always been as an antiseptic, effective against a wide range of bacteria and fungi and used for colds, chest infections and digestive upsets. |
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Today, saccharides can be found in supplements and foods, such as edible fungi, breast milk, certain fruits and vegetables, whole grains, roots and plants. |
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Festivals, also known as sagras or festas, kick off in the middle of July and run until August 15, though there are occasional wild boar or fungi festivals in the autumn. |
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They proved that fungi can be identified in virtually all patients with chronic rhinosinusitis if meticulous, painstaking efforts are taken to procure samples. |
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They have been considered animals, protozoans, fungi or space aliens. |
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Traditionally, the field of parasitology has dealt with eukaryotic animals, to the exclusion of viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc., which is the way it will be approached here. |
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The nidulariaceous fungi included five genera, from which only Cyathus is currently known from Cameroon. |
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The bacteria were also included in fungi in some classifications, as the group Schizomycetes. |
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Chytrid fungi are common pathogens of plants and insects but had never before been known to attack vertebrates. |
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The fungi proved sensitive to ketoconazole and itraconazole, but not to fluconazole or griseofulvin. |
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Also, the acorns contain tannic acid, as do the leaves, which helps to guard from fungi and insects. |
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The list, of 383 species in 175 genera, included all fungi observed within the then boundaries of the country. |
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The true number of species of fungi in South Sudan is probably much higher. |
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The traditional music of the British Virgin Islands is called fungi after the local cornmeal dish with the same name, often made with okra. |
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The special sound of fungi is due to a unique local fusion between African and European music. |
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Apart from being a form of festive dance music, fungi often contains humorous social commentaries, as well as BVI oral history. |
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The ericoid mycorrhizal fungi associated with Calluna, Erica and Vaccinium can grow in metalliferous soils containing copper. |
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Apart from these 3 colors, all other surfaces revealed the presence of fungi and phototrophs. |
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Pests include viruses, bacteria, and fungi as well as arthropods and gastropods. |
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Species complexes occur in insects such as Heliconius butterflies, vertebrates such as Hypsiboas treefrogs, and fungi such as the fly agaric. |
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Discovery of these fossils suggest that fungi developed symbiotic partnerships with photoautotrophs long before the evolution of vascular plants. |
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Nutrients from pollen aid detritivores in development, growth and maturation, and may enable fungi to decompose nutritionally scarce litter. |
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Instead, these species obtain energy and nutrients by parasitising soil fungi through the formation of orchid mycorrhizas. |
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The fungi involved include those that form ectomycorrhizas with trees and other woody plants, parasites such as Armillaria, and saprotrophs. |
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It has also been shown to be effective against various fungi that commonly infect toenails. |
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Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between fungi and photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria. |
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A characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants, bacteria, and some protists is chitin in their cell walls. |
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Fungi include symbionts of plants, animals, or other fungi and also parasites. |
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The fungi are traditionally considered heterotrophs, organisms that rely solely on carbon fixed by other organisms for metabolism. |
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Another strategy is seen in the stinkhorns, a group of fungi with lively colors and putrid odor that attract insects to disperse their spores. |
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In contrast to plants and animals, the early fossil record of the fungi is meager. |
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The Ascomycota, commonly known as sac fungi or ascomycetes, constitute the largest taxonomic group within the Eumycota. |
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Although often inconspicuous, fungi occur in every environment on Earth and play very important roles in most ecosystems. |
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Many fungi have important symbiotic relationships with organisms from most if not all Kingdoms. |
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Some fungi can cause serious diseases in humans, several of which may be fatal if untreated. |
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Fungal spores are also a cause of allergies, and fungi from different taxonomic groups can evoke allergic reactions. |
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Many fungi produce biologically active compounds, several of which are toxic to animals or plants and are therefore called mycotoxins. |
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The human use of fungi for food preparation or preservation and other purposes is extensive and has a long history. |
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The study of the historical uses and sociological impact of fungi is known as ethnomycology. |
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Examples of statins found in fungi include mevastatin from Penicillium citrinum and lovastatin from Aspergillus terreus and the oyster mushroom. |
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Research has identified compounds produced by these and other fungi that have inhibitory biological effects against viruses and cancer cells. |
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Many Asian fungi are commercially grown and have increased in popularity in the West. |
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This has generated strong interest in practical applications that use these fungi in the biological control of these agricultural pests. |
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Entomopathogenic fungi can be used as biopesticides, as they actively kill insects. |
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A lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship. |
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The fungi benefit from the carbohydrates produced by the algae or cyanobacteria via photosynthesis. |
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Many lichen fungi reproduce sexually like other fungi, producing spores formed by meiosis and fusion of gametes. |
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Lichens independently emerged from fungi associating with algae and cyanobacteria multiple times throughout history. |
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If correct, then the number of South African fungi dwarfs that of its plants. |
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Similarly, wood submerged in water may not be attacked by fungi if the amount of oxygen is inadequate. |
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Besides soft rot, brown rot and white rot fungi are also involves in the degradation of cellulose. |
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There are many highly specialised animals, fungi and plants associated with bog habitat. |
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Orchids have adapted to these conditions through the use of mycorrhizal fungi to extract nutrients. |
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He described stories of Slavs allegedly eating poisonous fungi without coming to any harm. |
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It either acts directly on the fungi or activates the defence mechanisms of plants to induce the production of phytoalexins. |
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A first effort to estimate the number of endemic fungi tentatively listed 407 species. |
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Several species of fungi have been domesticated for use directly as food, or in fermentation to produce foods and drugs. |
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Mould fungi including Penicillium are used to mature cheeses and other dairy products, as well as to make drugs such as antibiotics. |
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Some animals are sensitive to particular fungi or molds that may grow on living plants. |
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Woodland fungi can be found growing under the bracken canopy, for example Mycena epipterygia. |
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Sonographic assessments including brain and abdominal sonographies and ocular examination for the potential seeding of the fungi were normal. |
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Ag Tech, an anti-microbial systems company based at Ocean Park, has produced wallboards that it says kill bacteria and fungi on contact. |
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Even in the most well-kept apartment houses, ventilation ductwork can become a breeding ground for mold, mildew, fungi and bacteria. |
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They also include a new chapter on identifying fungi in histopathological sections and smears. |
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Laboulbeniales is a large group of ascomycete fungi which complete their entire lifecycle on living arthropods. |
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It is used across the world for the control of various fungi, especially Oomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes and Fungi imperfecti. |
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All fungi were identified as Ascomycetes based on their ITS region of rRNA using PCR followed by DNA sequencing. |
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Aflatoxins are highly toxic substances produced by several species of Aspergillus fungi. |
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At the contact to sediment infillings, fungi produced haustoria that penetrated and scavenged on the remains of fragmented marine organisms. |
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Airborne antibiotic resistant and nonresistant bacteria and fungi recovered from two swine herd confined animal feeding operations. |
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About 500 million years ago, plants and fungi colonised the land and were soon followed by arthropods and other animals. |
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Viruses, bacteria, fungi and cancers evolve to be resistant to host immune defences, as well as pharmaceutical drugs. |
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That checklist includes more than 11250 species of fungi recorded from the region. |
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The mushroom-producing fungi reduce and methylate the pteroylmonoglutamates into activated folates. |
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The book is a balance of medical and microbiologic information on the fungi pathogenic for humans. |
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The fungi that grew on the multimixture were extremely dense and had to be removed daily during the insect counting. |
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Many of these mycodiesel hydrocarbons are terpenes, a chemically diverse class of compounds produced by many plants, fungi, and bacteria. |
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There's endophytic fungi that grows on the inside fibres and epiphytic fungi on the outside. |
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The difficulties in obtaining axenic cultures of these fungi have not been fully overcome. |
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Plants and some other organisms have an additional terpene biosynthesis pathway in their chloroplasts, a structure fungi and animals do not have. |
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Other examples of aquatic fungi include those living in hydrothermal areas of the ocean. |
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Around 120,000 species of fungi have been described by taxonomists, but the global biodiversity of the fungus kingdom is not fully understood. |
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The field of phytopathology, the study of plant diseases, is closely related because many plant pathogens are fungi. |
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Some of the oldest written records contain references to the destruction of crops that were probably caused by pathogenic fungi. |
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While the environment is teeming with bacteria and fungi, most are not pathogenic. |
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The kngdom of fungi also includes yeasts, slime molds, rusts and several other types of related organisms. |
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According to scientist Andrew Haynes, reindeer deliberately eat the mind-bending fly agaric fungi to escape the monotony of winters. |
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They also include some fungi, algae, and certain animals, such as rotifers. |
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Unlike the wood you get from trees, Pollywood is rot-proof and weather resistant and won r be attached by insects, fungi or bacteria. |
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Saprobic edible fungi are also collected from the wild but they are best known and most widely valued in their cultivated forms. |
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I have also seen fallen birch logs hosting toothed jelly fungus and witch's butter, both of which are useful edible fungi. |
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This section describes the biotransformation of cyclic and acyclic monoterpenes by different fungi. |
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