«It's a fungal infection that essentially replaces the horse's foot with a deep pocket
of black fungus.
This particular type
of black fungus is common near distilleries because it uses ethanol as a source of energy for growth.
In the same 2008 experiment, two species
of black fungi spent 18 months hanging outside ISS on the EXPOSE platform.
Not exact matches
When the disease is severe, the
fungus may attack main stems and branches, causing brown or
black spots that kill that portion
of the plant.
Those who do not enjoy offals such as chicken liver or pork liver should try to incorporate
black fungus in the diet as a source
of iron - to help nourish the blood, and especially when you are on a vegetarian diet.
About truffles
Black truffles (tuber melanosporum) are
fungi that grow slightly below the ground and are associated with the roots
of oak trees.
Fungi Barely Make It Microscopic
black fungal cells, found in the cracks
of Antarctica's rocks, might also survive on Mars — but just barely.
Researchers at the University
of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how a group
of three closely related fungal pathogens have evolved into a lethal threat to the world's bananas, whilst an international consortium led by scientists from Wageningen UR (University & Research Centre) has unravelled the DNA
of the
fungus that causes
black Sigatoka disease in bananas.
This fresh understanding
of the DNA
of the
black Sigatoka
fungus is also providing new information that is useful in the development
of more effective and, hopefully, less environmentally unfriendly crop protection products.
The Sigatoka disease complex is a cluster
of three closely related
fungi — yellow sigatoka (Pseudocercospora musae), eumusae leaf spot (Pseudocercospora eumusae) and
black sigatoka (Pseudocercospora fijiensis)-- which emerged in quick succession during the last century as destructive pathogens on banana.
«When the genome
of the
black Perigord truffle was mapped in 2010, we thought that the
fungus had sufficient genes to create its flavour on its own,» junior professor Richard Splivallo from the Institute for Molecular Life Sciences at the Goethe University explained.
A broken primrose fruit showing the remains
of a fuzzy
black parasitic
fungus called smut (upper left).
Many wild populations
of animals and plants are profoundly threatened by exotic diseases — chytrid
fungus in frogs, sylvatic plague in
black - footed ferrets, Rapid Ohi'a Death in the keystone ohi'a trees
of Hawaii, avian malaria in the forest birds
of Hawaii.
The
black toenail
fungus spot under the nail
of one big toe is completely gone.
It can be controlled by planting
black cohosh in well - draining soil and alternating it with other crops that are not susceptible to
fungi in order to control the number
of surviving pathogens in the soil.