Sentences with phrase «toxic fungus»

«Moose drool inhibits growth of toxic fungus.»

«Plants have evolved defense mechanisms to protect themselves, such as thorns, bitter - tasting berries, and in the case of certain types of grass, by harbouring toxic fungus deep within them that can be dangerous or even fatal for grazing animals,» says York U Biology Professor Dawn Bazely, who worked with University of Cambridge researcher Andrew Tanentzap and York U researcher Mark Vicari on the project.

That said, I think that we are so clueless about replicating even somewhat of a natural environment that makes us thrive that it's going to be hard to go to other places unless we figure out the microbial diversity and avoiding, say toxic fungus growing on your spaceship, because that'll sort of kill you as well as getting our lighting and even our EMF environment to replicate what we naturally had on Planet Earth.

Nicknamed toadstools, these toxic fungi may have gotten their name from the German «todstuhl,» meaning death seat.

Researchers hope to wipe out aflatoxin, a toxic fungus that can grow on the country's main crop.

A toxic fungus infects crops eaten across the developing world.

Ergotamines, a class of drugs that constrict blood vessels, come from a toxic fungus that attacks rye.

Working in partnership with the Toronto Zoo, the team collected saliva samples from moose and reindeer, which they then smeared onto clipped samples of red fescue grass carrying the toxic fungus, simulating the effect of grazing.

The elves took refuge underground where they discovered the Dwemer who helped them, however the Dwemer would eventually betray them by feeding them a toxic fungus which caused blindness.