When mould gets a grip on a building, it can hold it together.
Tag - fungus
Nigel Chaffey
Plant Records: The Plant that Fooled Millions
Name: Baniwi (Banana Kiwi) plant Scientific name: N/A Known for: Fooling millions and millions of people Record broken: Going viral on the internet At AoBBlog, we like graphs and data. Therefore, I decided to approach...
Anne Osterrieder
Garlic and octopus battle tree disease
An allicin-based solution has been shown to treat trees infected with fungal diseases.
Funds flood into plant water use research
For too long, CAM [crassulacean acid metabolism, in which CO2 is fixed into an organic acid at night when stomata are open(!) in such plants and re-fixed via the Calvin–Benson–Bassham et al. Cycle – C3 photosynthesis...
Fungus genome figured
Sticking with fungi (Aha! The ‘Melbourne Code card’ duly played!), but a more benign side this time is this uplifting tale. In the West we are generally aware of the power of plants to provide medicines; but we tend to...
COR, nice one, Mr Microbe!
Although open stomata are necessary for plants to take up CO2 for photosynthesis, this also permits loss of precious water – by transpiration, the so-called necessary evil of photosynthesis. But, surely, nothing worse...
Bananas, disease, diversity, research and The One Show
Our favourite fruit, the banana, is threatened by fungal, viral and bacterial diseases. This was discussed on the BBC TV programme ‘The One Show’ on 13 May, to include an interview with Pat Heslop-Harrison...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison