Sentences with phrase «mycelium fungus»

Thankfully organic farmers, and soil and plant scientists, aren't waiting around for the lab results, they're out in the field working on solutions, including using mycelium fungus to decontaminate soil.

Funereal - looking tiles (two of which enclose a single piece of catalin), columns and moldings made from mycelium fungus line the inside walls.

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A young Denver - based company has lofty ambitions to revolutionize the coffee industry through earthly means — incorporating the vegetative parts of fungi found in the root structures of mushrooms, called mycelium, to naturally alter flavor and mitigate negative qualities of bitterness in coffee.

The cellulose - excreting bacterium Gluconacetobacter hansenii will be genetically engineered to grow industrial - quality sheets of acetate that can be applied to the mycelium directly, shrink - wrapping the fungus as it dries.

Species known as mycorrhizal fungi use their mycelia to envelop or penetrate plant roots, contributing nitrogen compounds and mineral salts in exchange for sugars from the host organism.

Heterobasidion root rot fungi host to more than 20 species of mycoviruses, which are known to survive for years in infected mycelium and can transfer from one fungal species to another, both in the laboratory and under natural conditions.

As it grows, the fungus develops a cobweb - like mass of thread - like cells called mycelium.

By extension, it designates the entire fungus producing the fruiting body of such appearance, the former consisting of a network (called the mycelium) of filaments or hyphae.

In a much broader sense, mushroom is applied to any visible fungus, or especially the fruiting body of any fungus, with the mycelium usually being hidden under bark, ground, rotten wood, leaves, etc..

The actual cleaning by using fungi takes place in a treatment plant where the mycelia of white rot fungi are allowed to grow in the polluted soil.

«It's possible that over the course of Earth's history, bacterial diversity increased massively with the development of mycelium - forming fungi.»

It parasitises the mycelium of Russula fungi, which in turn parasitise the roots of deciduous trees such as beech.

Teacher Answer Key Topics Include: • mycology • hyphae • mycelium • septae • chitin • absorptive nutrition • saprobes • spores • budding • fragmentation • chytrids • Glomeromycetes • mycorrhizae • zygote fungi • zygosporangium • sac fungi • Ascomycota • ascus • club fungi • Basidiomycota • basidium • cap • gills • stipe • fruiting bodies • lichen • mold Happy Teaching!

For her newly commissioned work, Phillipa Horan has been experimenting with mycelium (the vegetative part of a fungus) and growing a figurative mycelium - based sculpture in a laboratory in Upstate New York.

Mycologists have worked long and hard to dispel so - called «fungi - phobia,» and inventor - artist Philip Ross is another visionary soul who has dedicated his life to mushrooms — specifically quick - growing mycelia — cultivating, drying and developing them as a potential building material which, says Inhabitat, «makes it stronger, pound for pound, than concrete.»

From the edible to the medicinal, from the practical (bio-remediating mycelium) to the mystical (entheogenic «magic mushrooms»), the film attempts to expel «fungi - phobia» by making a case that the lowly mushroom plays a central role in the health of the planet.Mushroom celebrations and mushroom hunting Filmed at the annual Telluride Mushroom Festival, the film's protagonists include Larry Evans, known as the «the Indiana Jones of mushrooms,» along with mycologist and mushroom field guide author Gary Lincoff.