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Take the Fungal Highway
At right: Bacteria on a mycelium. Photo by Katrin Pötzsch/UFZ.
Fungal hyphae play a greater role in the spread of bacteria in the soil than was previously suspected. This is the finding reported by scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology. For the first time, scientists […]
And What Did You Give Your Sweetie?
Let’s see…A pizza topped with Beluga caviar, Scottish smoked wild salmon, prosciutto drizzled with vintage balsamic vinegar, lobster marinated in £1,300 Louis XIII Cognac, grilled venison and Aberdeen Angus fillet, corn-fed chicken, and white truffle and gold shavings.
The cost? £2,150 (US$2,823.34).
The antipasto-style feast sold during a charity auction on eBay in November to Italian lawyer […]
Anne Pringle’s Destiny
At right: Biologist Anne Pringle holds a death cap mushroom at the Point Reyes National Seashore, in Northern California. Photo by Richard Harris, NPR.
Thanks to NPR for doing a fantastic job on the story about biologist Anne Pringle, a woman who is determined - despite lack of funds - to discover why the death cap […]
Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics
At right: photo by Jason Stajich, located at the Mycology Flickr Pool.
I ran across the Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics in my Web surfing for mushroom news today, and noticed that this group invites mushroom photographers to join their Mycology Flickr Pool. Besides that open invitation, this blog can highlight some of the interesting happenings […]
Biologist Baroni Named Mycological Society of America Fellow
Timothy J. Baroni, a SUNY Cortland professor of biological sciences who has specialized in mycology, which is the study of fungi, was named a 2006 Fellow of the Mycological Society of America (MSA).
Baroni’s recognition was announced during recent international joint meetings of the MSA and the Association for Plant Pathologists in Quebec City, Canada. His […]
Tasmanian Truffle Enterprises in News
In Tasmania, where key agri-industries have flourished, the state Liberals are leading a revolt, demanding Canberra reconsider its “bewildering” decision this week to end tax breaks for non-forestry managed investment schemes (MIS). “Not only is this decision completely out of touch, it is also totally inconsistent policy for tax concessions to apply to forestry-related investment […]
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