The Fung Hunters

[RobArb]

Uh huh

 

Helped these guys with a project around veterans

 

 

 

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Cool:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Because it was specifically trying to confuse you.

 

Sneaky wee organisms, are the fung

 

 

Did ya note the green & orange mold on the edge of this mornings resi?

 

Not seen that before.

 

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that be a trichoderma me old mucka

[David Humphries]

that be a trichoderma me old mucka

 

that needs a wee bit of expansion please, whats the reference?

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

that needs a wee bit of expansion please, whats the reference?

 

 

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Oh ive a lot of work to do before I can expand on it much, just an educated hunch, Trichodermas thrive on waning fruitbodies like this annual, massive genus and imortant component of the forest ecology.

 

Welcome to Trichoderma taxonomy!

 

Trichoderma virens, a Plant Beneficial Fungus, Enhances Biomass Production and Promotes Lateral Root Growth through an Auxin-Dependent Mechanism in Arabidopsis

 

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/Biological_Chemistry/scientist/Chet/NR.pdf

Edited August 28, 2013 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[David Humphries]

an interesting session at one of the Oxford University field stations today

 

Wytham woods.

 

A work shop with Professor Lynne Boddy from Cardiff University & Dr Andy Taylor from the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, on the importance & significance of fungi within Forest Ecology.

 

Well hosted by Earth Watch & the BES

 

The morning program were presentations and discussion on saprotrophic & mycorrhizal fungi & then out for a walk in the woods picking the brains of two of the UK's premier mycologists

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Although now sitting here with a sore head full of a wealth of interesting new facts and information, I found it suprising that there appears (with the greatest respect) to be less interest by the mycologists in bracket fungi on trees than there is regarding the decomposers of fallen wood volumes & the association of the mycorrhizas

 

Bracket fungi appears to be a niche left to non specific - mycologists like David Lonsdale & Ted Green.

 

Why is this?

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

I came across an interesting combination where small saprotrophic white fruit bodies (possibly Marasmius or Delicatula sp) were hosted on the desicating remains of an Inonotus hispidus bracket.

 

The professori thought it most interesting

 

 

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[David Humphries]

up close & personal......

 

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[David Humphries]

always have an eye open for little sneaky fung lurking amongst the grass

 

possibly Bolbitius vitellinus not uncommon but a delicate wee thing nonetheless

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Although now sitting here with a sore head full of a wealth of interesting new facts and information, I found it suprising that there appears (with the greatest respect) to be less interest by the mycologists in bracket fungi on trees than there is regarding the decomposers of fallen wood volumes & the association of the mycorrhizas

 

Bracket fungi appears to be a niche left to non specific - mycologists like David Lonsdale & Ted Green.

 

Why is this?

 

 

 

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You should be including yourself and I and a growing number of others in that statement!

 

I have no idea why this is the case, either way it is an area ripe for study because of it.