Growing ferns from spores
There are two distinct stages of the fern life cycle. Mature plants produce spores on the underside of the leaves. When these germinate they grow into small heart-shaped plants known as prothalli. Male and female cells are produced on these ... [... more]
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What is tetanus?
Tetanus is a serious illness, which can be fatal. It is caused by the tetanus bacteria (germs) getting into a wound or cut and producing a toxin (poison) which affects the nervous system. Spores of these bacteria are in the soil world wide. Few ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
David Jubb
According to David Jubb, who has done the breakthrough work in this realm, life extension and health optimization require protein and antioxidant synthesis. Colloids of life and lifecolloids (spores), he says, are the real primordial building ... [... more]
Random House |
Michael T. Osterholm Phd., M.P.H.
What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe A deadly cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles unnoticed over a crowded football stadium.... A school cafeteria lunch is infected with a drug-resistant strain of E. ... [... more]
Random House |
John Schwartz
What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe A deadly cloud of powdered anthrax spores settles unnoticed over a crowded football stadium.... A school cafeteria lunch is infected with a drug-resistant strain of E. ... [... more]
Random House |
New insights into Botrytis
Botrytis cinerea grows mainly on dead leaf tissue in the canopy from which spores are released into the air and accumulate on the fruit during the growing season. The amount of dead leaf tissue increases during the season and is greater in more ... [... more]
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HortFACT - Pruning to prevent silverleaf
Silverleaf (Chondrostereum purpureum) spores infect the tree through wounds. As pruning exposes the tree to wounds, fruit tree growers need to prune correctly to quicken the healing process. Silverleaf (Chondrostereum purpureum) spores infect the ... [... more]
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Flask fungi
These fungi produce their spores in tiny, generally globose, chambers (called perithecia) which are mostly under a couple of millimetres in diameter - often no more than a millimetre. At first, it might seem strange to include these fungi because ... [... more]
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perithecia
The Flask Fungi produce their spores in tiny, generally spherical, chambers (called Of course, this is a very simplistic diagram and there is considerable variation in both the shapes and contents of perithecia. These diagrams show some of the ... [... more]
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Two Major Groups
The (macro) fungi that are dealt with in this website can be divided into two broad groups, called In ascomycetes the spores are produced within microscopic cells called Here are some drawings of asci. If you click on the camera you will see a ... [... more]
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Spore release and dispersal
In the TYPES OF FUNGI SECTION there were descriptions of various common types of fungal fruiting bodies and the opening page of WHAT IS A FUNGUS explained that the sole function of a fungal fruiting body was to produce and disperse spores. The ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
Gymnopilus pampeanus (Speg.) Singer Lilloa 22: 561 (1951)
Description and distribution map for Gymnopilus pampeanus in Australia. Cortina high on the stem. With age, this becomes a few fibres dusted with rusty spores. Densely caespitose (growing in dense clumps) at the bases of pine and Eucalyptus ... [... more]
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